Take care

My late father’s last request to me and my siblings was to “take care of your mom, your family, yourself and your partners.”

He was one of the most dedicated, hard-working, and brilliant software engineers I’ve ever met, yet it spoke volumes when vocation didn’t make the cut for the most important things he wished for us to pay attention to in life.

A job is a fine thing to want to excel and grow in, but the journey means nothing if it’s at the expense of your wellbeing or of having people around you.

In practice, you can’t really have that many priorities. You can’t have 10 or 20 priorities. You can have a maybe few.

Take care of your people; take care of you.

If not now, as we get older and look at back on life I suspect we’ll all realize that everything else, however important they seemed in the moment, was secondary.