Let's talk about celebrating our successes. Laura Gaetano mentioned the "Brag Document", which allows you to "record your big and small achievements". I think this is an important and valuable concept. It is a productive concept.
Our active memory can be like a cache of recently used data. Fresh ideas and frustrations supersede older ones. The older the thought, the fuzzier it becomes. Details are lost.
There is also negativity bias. When good and bad things happen at the same intensity, the bad ones have a greater effect on us.
These two factors can also affect us during our work weeks. We can start each week with a fresh mind, but as the days go by, the details get lost. Monday and Tuesday become a pale memory by the time we reach Friday. Negative memories can have a greater impact. Stress and fatigue can accumulate throughout the week, overshadowing the small successes we have achieved. This mood, if left unchecked, can spill over into the next week, negatively impacting it and leading to burnout in the long run.
Just look at my week. It was fine, but Thursday was pretty much wasted due to Google Vertex AI issues. Without outside help, all I remembered was disliking Kubeflow-like system quirks, bugs in the Google Vertex AI platform, and YAML.