Admittedly I had a client with this. He was on Shopify. We did everything thgat franze highlighted. We did a full screamingfrog audit of the sitemap, and fixed everything from title length down to html and script problems. Wound up being really toxic backlinks that we needed to disavow. It still took a few months but finally his links were listing. The crazy thing is we had cloned competitors getting higher ranking before.
Oof, sadly this sounds like me... It's hard to delegate, and even harder to trust that it's done correctly. I know this will be my undoing someday, it also drives me insane because it puts extra pressure on myself...
Start small and practice. Evaluate how people react to the task size and experiment from there. E.g. don't make someone annoyed by tasks way under their stature grow at the same rate as someone who struggles to deliver.
This goes for clarity, difficulty and size of the task. Don't make someone bad at filling the details do an unclear task. Don't make someone unskilled do a clear yet difficult task. Don't make someone with no track record work on a task for too many days without supervision. Etc.
Unfortunately, people not meeting standards you would will always be a thing unless you're leading people more skilled in the area of expertise. Which brings it's own set of issues.
Realize that others are at other points in their lives. That just because the code does not look the exact way you would write it does not mean it is not bad/wrong. There is always one more refactor to do. There is always more bug. Worry about what you can do. Help others when they need it (not when you want to, this is tricky to not become the knowitall guy).
Delegating is knowing that you need to let go and ingest the fact that they are there to help. Mistakes happen and will happen. But that is part of learning for you and them. If they are not learning that is a different issue. Do not worry about it. You will learn what you can put them on better. But once they learn something they can turn around and help you learn. They can take care of it and you do not have to worry. Delegation is trust. Learning to trust is learning to 'let go' and being open to being 'hurt'. But also being willing to forgive and forget.
I'm not a developer, so maybe not the best person to ask.
What seems to work is where areas of the product are assigned to specific teams - the overly-attached dev can at least see what's happening, provide guidance, without having to do the work, point to wiki that needs updating etc. Over time they'll build trust and can back away a bit.
What doesn't work is if work is given to a different team who just do their own thing and the 'parent dev' only finds what's happened to their baby on the commit/demo.
Even if they've done a great job, it ruffles feathers.
I actually really love that there's more people focusing on this problem. Its one a friend of mine also tried to address, with https://enterflow.app/
As someone with extreme ADHD, this has made my life so much easier and reduced my tab clutter.
I love how this is so hot-key rich, I think like everyone else has kind of mentioned I wish we had chrome extensions, last pass, editthiscookie etc. It's the pro vs con of going extension vs full blown browser.
One of the other hurdles I've encountered is restricted installs by internal companies due to "security" reasons.
I am gonna be giving this a go for the next few days and see how I adapt to it.
Seriously love the fact this is becoming a focus for people.
Today I decided to check out the state of Microsoft Edge after installing Windows 11 and it felt like I am fighting the browser to stop throwing stuff on me in order to focus and just do the work I want to do. News section, sports, suggestions flooded me. The address bar tapping both bookmarks and history spits a dozen lines on every keypress assuming things.
I'm not even diagnosed with ADHD and I'm still tired that I have to spent time configuring things to fix a user experience more aligned with the company behind the browser than my needs. And I only covered the things I am allowed to touch with a little googling, not the ones I just have to accept as inevitable.
A browser that helps me go straight into what I want? Sign me up!
Honestly, it’s all so exhausting I’m just so damn tired. You can’t even buy an OS anymore that isn’t loaded to the brim with bloat and spyware—provided BY THE MANUFACTURER nonetheless.
Honestly, once Windows ten is end Of life I’m done with tech industry.
I’ll go to the library and read some books; I’ll use a pen/pencil; I’ll wander, blissfully into the sunset.
I agree Linux is great—and I shall continue to use the OS. But the online ads are even more exhausting than desktop-bound ads no matter which browser, no matter which ad blocker, no matter which OS. Not just ads but those annoying “cookie” banners …
And let me just say: God help those who frequent TikTok… Their minds will be mush 2.0.
Enable EasyList cookie filter for your Ad Blocker (uBlock Origin in Firefox highly recommended). This has drastically cut down number of banners I see.
