{"id":2411,"date":"2011-03-20T12:14:49","date_gmt":"2011-03-20T19:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahdopp.com\/blog\/?p=2411"},"modified":"2011-03-20T12:27:25","modified_gmt":"2011-03-20T19:27:25","slug":"i-am-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/2011\/i-am-building\/","title":{"rendered":"I am building."},"content":{"rendered":"
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I am building.<\/p>\n

I am waking up early on weekdays and going into an office and doing a job I love — community management for a company that makes free, open websites<\/a> for whoever on the planet wants to write and build and share.<\/p>\n

I am taking hour-long lunches on a giant beanbag at the back of the office with my laptop, building a little at a time and answering emails from my other projects. And then I am closing down that mail program and not looking at it for the rest of the day while I go back to work.<\/p>\n

I am blogging and thinking and maintaining and helping. I am learning.<\/p>\n

I am working 40 hours a week.<\/p>\n

I am scheming ideas on the train. I am brainstorming while I walk through Yerba Buena Park every morning. I am listening to audiobooks on management, on creativity, on mindfulness, and on how to be a ten year-old boy<\/a>\"\". I am dancing through the Martin Luther King memorial fountain in the rain on my walk home.<\/p>\n

Once a week, I have a meeting at 7am with one of my organizing counterparts<\/a> to plan more building.<\/p>\n

I am spending evenings resting and playing and seeing people. I thought I would spend them building, but I was wrong. I am healthier this time around, and my body needs time to not build.<\/p>\n

I am also getting eight hours of sleep a night. Usually. (Okay, seven.) And I eat breakfast every day.<\/p>\n

I am building on weekends.<\/p>\n

I am writing all over my whiteboard. I am writing all over my shower<\/a>\"\". I am writing on post-its and notebooks and the backs of envelopes all over my desk. There are wireframe sketches and lists everywhere.<\/p>\n

I am forgetting to do my dishes.<\/p>\n

I am tackling features and software and code. I am finding bugs and squishing them. I am testing things and researching and talking to myself out loud.<\/p>\n

I am working 60 hours a week.<\/p>\n

I am untangling the knot of how to build a sustainable community project on only lunchbreaks and weekends. I am cracking the nut of how to build a happy staff without revenue or major investment. I know these things are possible because I’ve done this before<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Twice.<\/a><\/p>\n

And this time around, I am healthier. I am in love with my entire day, every day. This is what I spent last year preparing for and making possible. It’s here. This is it. I get to build.<\/p>\n

It won’t be done next week, but it’s happening.<\/p>\n

The Genderplayful Marketplace<\/a> is on its way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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