{"id":768,"date":"2003-08-16T23:19:40","date_gmt":"2003-08-16T23:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2003\/08\/16\/over-commitment.html"},"modified":"2003-08-16T23:19:40","modified_gmt":"2003-08-16T23:19:40","slug":"over-commitment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2003\/08\/16\/over-commitment.html","title":{"rendered":"over-commitment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, i&#8217;m notorious at getting myself way too committed for my own good, but this (pointing to &#8220;right now&#8221;), this is out of hand.<\/p>\n<p>Lesson for self in the future (publicly said to make it stick)&#8230;  It is irresponsible to try to work for a non-profit, a startup and be a graduate student simulantaneously.  Plus do my research and write a paper.  Plus think that i can also plan for Burning Man.  [And we&#8217;ll ignore the fact that i also tried to move, help run a conference, and speak at a conference in the same 2 month period as trying to juggle all of the above.]<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never been so far behind on my email.  And i&#8217;ve been non-existent to my friends, my family and my health.  ::sigh::<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>So stepping back from my own whirlwind, San Francisco terrifies me.  There are too many interesting people, interesting projects and interesting things going on to be able to juggle everything that i would like to do.  To make matters worse, people have a whole different concept of commitment out here that drives me batty.<\/p>\n<p>Normally, when i commit to something, i commit to it fully.  When i overcommit, i flake on the social and personal parts of my life (not always the best move).  But when i promise something will get done, i hate it when i can&#8217;t come through.<\/p>\n<p>In San Francisco, people seem to overcommit naturally, yet they have no qualms about flaking on commitments.  So weird.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, i&#8217;m notorious at getting myself way too committed for my own good, but this (pointing to &#8220;right now&#8221;), this is out of hand. Lesson for self in the future (publicly said to make it stick)&#8230; It is irresponsible to try to work for a non-profit, a startup and be a graduate student simulantaneously. Plus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}