End of Diary

This is difficult for me to post about, but here we go: I've left the #sunrise-choir team. I managed to burn out, there's been an unhealthy cocktail of:

• me trying to do too much and not taking good care of myself
• real life being emotionally draining
• feeling like the stuff I did did not have a real impact

I'm starting to do better, but I need some time to recharge. I've started out being very passionate about the protocol discussions, but right now I mostly skim them and move on, even if I very much disagree. That's pretty scary, but I'll listen to my brain for now. There'll surely come a time when I'll engage again and can annoy Dominic a bit more.

@dinosaur and @Piet have been absolutely lovely the whole time, while still giving me the freedom to learn this lesson about myself. Thank you guys.

I plan on writing a retrospective on the stuff I did over the two months of choir work. There's been a bunch of specification writing, both for the current protocol and for potential protocol evolution, as well as a few rust implementations. A few things are somewhat hanging in the air, but a lot of them are self-contained and usable. It'll be nice to organize and reflect on them. I'm not in the right state to tackle this yet, but I know I'm going to get to it eventually.