I realized one reason why the annual goals bother people like geeks so much.\u00c2\u00a0 There’s always the section for “personal development” just under the professional goals.\u00c2\u00a0 The work ones kind of make sense – “build new servers within one week of physical availability” or “automate morning procedures”.\u00c2\u00a0 But the ones like “growing my skills” always really bothered me.\u00c2\u00a0 *really* bothered me.\u00c2\u00a0 Anyway, today I figured out why it bothers me so much.<\/p>\n
For geeks, professional growth is *implied*.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I realized one reason why the annual goals bother people like geeks so much.\u00c2\u00a0 There’s always the section for “personal development” just under the professional goals.\u00c2\u00a0 The work ones kind of make sense – “build new servers within one week of physical availability” or “automate morning procedures”.\u00c2\u00a0 But the ones like “growing my skills” always […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imaginarybillboards.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imaginarybillboards.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imaginarybillboards.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imaginarybillboards.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imaginarybillboards.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.imaginarybillboards.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imaginarybillboards.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imaginarybillboards.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imaginarybillboards.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}