The first thing you need to accept is: your memory sucks. If you have tasks you want or need to do in life (for yourself or for others) chances are you can’t remember them all. That’s why organised people don’t rely on their own memory and instead have a system to track their commitments. In this post I’ll explain my system and why it is the way it is.| Mike McQuaid
I became a father for the first time in 2017, took 3 months paternity leave alone with my eldest in 2018 (thanks to GitHub for 5 months paid paternity leave). I had another child two weeks ago so I’m on paternity leave (again) right now and expect to take more in 2020. This has given me time to reflect on how becoming a father has changed the way I do my paid (currently a “Senior Engineer” at GitHub) and unpaid (open source, currently primarily as the “Homebrew Project Leader”) work...| Mike McQuaid