I've given up on finding my life's work. I build projects one after another, keep each for as long as it works, and close it when it stops. I care about the body of work, not any single monument. My rule for keeping a project: it has to make money, teach me something, or give me real enjoyment. If I go three months without any of those, I stop. https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/how-to-give-up-your-lifes-work

Absolutely anyone can be "busy." It doesn't make you special.

Most "quick calls" could be a well-written paragraph. Most paragraphs could be a sentence. Nothing should be a Slack message.

The fastest way to make software worse is to hire a team of forty people to make it better.