It's a full moon in Thailand, and the sun is close enough to rising to finally give me a glimpse of the pool behind our villa. It's already 78 degrees, and I'm getting eaten alive by strange bugs with unknown diseases. These working conditions are abysmal! My reclining deck chair is hardly ergonomic, and the motorcycle my hosts have lent me for the next two weeks is begging me to put my laptop down and hit any of the 50+ beaches on this massive island. At least the wifi is fast...
Let me be clear: I'm here to work. Sometimes, when you're working on a project, you need to insulate the engineers from the client, make sure they can focus, and get their work done without constant interruption. And when you're the only person on what should be a three-person team, it's even more important. So, without further ado, my latest brilliant plan: Outsourcing to Myself.
Here's how it works. The only way to make sure someone else manages this project while I'm getting the actual work done on it appears to be to make it IMPOSSIBLE for me to manage the project, so someone else HAS to manage it.