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Re:It’s Never Going to Be Perfect, So Just Get It Done by TuringNYC on Monday July 08, 2019 @03:21PM (#20385849)
>> I often tell myself to "just start" rather than to "just get it done," especially when I suspect my anxiety is driving.

Same here, and specifically for tech work: I try to start with a unit test and a random-generator algo. Getting that trivial thing to run is often the activation energy I need to get started on writing the main workhorse functions.

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Re:It’s Never Going to Be Perfect, So Just Get It Done by lallysingh on Monday July 08, 2019 @03:42PM (#20386053)
Exactly. Seed, trunk, branches. They last thing you want is to build something big that, when it does the wrong thing, leaves you with too much code that you're not sure about.
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