It sits there on the edge of your desk.
You’ve pushed it off (physically) many times before.
But then you pick it up and put it right back on the edge.
It’s the code that works that no one knows how but now they need to change.
You don’t touch that code, that code should never be modified, it should be left alone forever.
But it can’t, you have to dive in, you have to figure out the why.
It’s in any job, the work we don’t want to do, it’s beyond the grunt work – it lives on a different pile – one we never want to touch but eventually need to.
The problem is this work takes up space, figuratively (and literally) in our heads, we think of it, we ponder it, and we slowly become consumed by it until eventually we are pushed into doing it and getting it over with.
And then it’s done.
But we still did not like doing it at all.
