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Re:Allan Odgaard's Latest Comments on TextMate 2 by scott_s on Saturday May 29, 2010 @02:53PM (#1389100)
... another is that my motivation and optimism is anything but constant, sometimes I think that if I work really hard for two months, I have enough to release an alpha, yet there tend to be some stumbling block, something I estimated to just a day’s work (or didn’t consider at all) end up taking the two full months, so it seems I have made no progress at all after those two months (sometimes it may even go backwards because structural changes disable certain features), and someone will then ask about that alpha I was so optimistic about, which will make me think it is all hopeless…

Anyone who has been burnt out should recognize that as a perfect description of it. It actually made me very sad to read that, since it reminded me so forcefully of times when I was burnt out - and I'm worried I'm close to that point again.

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