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Activity is not the same thing as progress.
You can be extremely busy and do a lot of work but after taking stock, realize you are no closer to your goals and in some cases, you may actually be further away from them.
@carnage4life I had an architect explain this to me once as "there is a significant difference between speed and velocity - you can be working at speed, but if you don't know what direction you're working for, you don't have a velocity."
That was my day exactly!
this and another phrase i hit in a college course "existence is not essence", i.e. that just because it's already there doesn't imbue it with any value or meaning, are part of how i evaluate if what i'm working on is actually worth my time.
@carnage4life quiet, you. Boss is looking.
@carnage4life Very true. You should watch ‘Lessons in Chemistry’ on AppleTV+.
@carnage4life Ah yes point at the top of my list for poorly aimed/structured/managed “agile” development.
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When your work becomes the reward, instead of the means to to it, then you have a problem. 
@carnage4life In software engineering, this is a corollary to Brooks Law. People added to a project are obviously spending their days doing *something*.