Staying on Top of Chaos!
Ah yes, organisation. Apart from mathematics, probably the single topic that I’m least qualified to talk, or write, about. Still, it is essential for trying to stay somewhat sane, for any given value of sanity, in the modern working world. I learned this lesson the hard way, as I tended to just trust my brain, which ended up with me jumping from pillar to post and got me alarmingly close to a burnout on more than one occasion. I tried to get a grip on things back in 2019, when I first set up an organisation system to help me stay somewhat focused. Then came a new job, followed pretty quickly by a pandemic, and while I was initially able to cope well, as the months turned into first one, then two, years, I found myself jumping from pillar to post more and more, struggling to keep up. Even post lockdown, things didn’t really get any better, not helped by that knee injury I managed to inflict on myself back in May 2022 and that would eventually send me to hospital. It is only now, i...