I was chatting with a friend recently who felt they weren’t doing enough at work. Everyone on their team is underwater and just trying to keep up, but they all have more to do than any team really should have. Familiar story, right?
Prioritization is forever an ongoing battle in your career and something I have grappled with as an individual contributor and engineering leader. Today I’m going to give you an analogy you may have heard before, but perhaps not in this application: the jar of life. I first heard of this from Stephen R Covey.
Picture this: you have in front of you an empty jar. Next to that jar you have a pile of sand, a pile of pebbles, and a pile of big rocks. I would illustrate this for you, but I couldn’t illustrate myself out of a paper bag, so you’ll have to use your imagination.
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