I can't get used to the fact that if something big and scary is looming, it will be postponed several times, rescheduled, cancelled, and still come suddenly at the most inconvenient moment.
You know, when some team is going to roll out a big feature to you in a release. Or there's a planned migration to some new system at the project level. Or some big company reorganization is looming, due to which you'll lose a lot of time. In short, everything where there's some technical complexity or bureaucracy. Nobody ever succeeds on the first try.
And you adjust to it each time, try to lay some straw to conflict less, don't take some of your plans into work, just so that on day X you and colleagues don't have crunches, everyone was ready. And then it turns out that you disrupted your plans for them, and day X didn't come. And this repeats in circles. Better to have followed your plans, it seems.
Honestly, what conclusion from this I don't know. In one of these iterations this big and scary thing will still happen and then it wasn't in vain. You can't just take and ignore it. Or can you? Or should you? 🤔