A work colleague told me an interesting analogy he had read recently. I can’t remember what exactly it was about – but it might have been making a movie, or similar.
The analogy was that the particular endeavour in question was like getting the whole team together and jumping out of a plane at the same time, and making the parachutes on the way down.
I think it’s particularly apt for Con running though – most other projects you can always just let the date slip. But when you’ve had the date printed, emailed, broadcast and blogged for over a year, it definitely starts rushing towards you as solid and unmovable as the ground.
Fortunately, I think that in the case of Conflux the parachutes are pretty much done now, and barring a few minor details, and the usual last minute panics, we can mostly enjoy the float to the bottom from here :)
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That’s a perfect analogy. Although add to it sometimes you have to make other people’s parachutes as well :)
But yep, it’s about time to sit back and watch it all happen.