Roadblocks today — not the guest anyone invites to a work day. I'm deep in a project that leans on an automation tool that promised to save time, and instead it's been throwing curveballs: loading errors, image uploads capped at ten at a time, settings that quietly reset themselves. Ghosts in the machine. For a while the troubleshooting was eating exactly the hours the automation was supposed to be saving, which is its own dark comedy.
But somewhere in the slog, an upside I didn't plan for. Every time the tool fails and I adjust something by hand, I catch small details I would have sailed right past. The tool broke; the breaking turned into a quality check I never scheduled. Not the time-saving miracle that was advertised — possibly worth more.
This is the test-and-learn phase, and it will take the time it takes. I probably won't be completely ready for Cyber Weekend, and I've made peace with the word "completely." I'm pushing to get as much of the weekend's upload list live as I can before the deadline — which is doing what deadlines do, and keeping me honest about what matters first.
Apparently the roadblock's real job is to slow the work down to the speed of doing it right.
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