| A C3 spinal cord injury has interfered multiple times, especially with finances and insurance. My advice? Automate as much as possible; Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, and kubespray are great. Build what you can, when you can. Try not to stress when you can't. Learn to meditate by focusing on your breath. A calm mind is very helpful for productivity. Establish a routine. Stick to it as best you can. (When my routine is thrown off, I'm very unproductive. Meditation helps reset my focus.) Buy an Echo Dot. Use repeating reminders to remember the day-to-day stuff (e.g., meds) so you can stay in the zone without neglecting your health. Keep well-named, well-organized bookmarks relevant to your illness; searching your browser history with a cloudy mind when sick is a PITA. Learn systems biology. View it as a FSM initially so you can properly debug your body and communicate with doctors when it fails you. Those are the tips I live by right now. My coding work won a startup competition a few years back, but the terms of the deal weren't favorable to me due to my disability, so I turned it down. One grand mal seizure a few months later, I forgot that I was a coder with ambitions. (The flip-side to that: I forgot that learning to code was so much fun, so I focused on languages I previously avoided.) The project from the competition is almost completely rewritten to be nearly autonomous. |