This year I came to realise that I have a lot of comments in code that refer to ‘we’ – even if I’m the only one developing software. Perhaps this is part of my manager’s training that it’s not me and them, it’s all of us, together. Wouldn’t you rather have code comments that were involving, friendly, accurate and succinct, than non-existent, terse (or verbose), annoyed, angry or irrelevant? Another part is that I’ve always felt there’s another voice I have. Honestly. It’s not bipolar or anything, just that I like to consider things from multiple viewpoints.

But today, something really surprised me: I have a list of all the things I need to do today, before Christmas hits. One of them is ‘chuck our rubbish’. Hang on? There’s only me here.. no one else. So why is it our rubbish?