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Re:Procrastination is driven by our desire to avoid difficul... by nicbou on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @04:32PM (#23543699)
Try reducing the scope of your projects, so that you can ride on your impulses. I find it a lot easier to maintain something I use than a half-completed project, so I try to get there as soon as possible. It worked really well for me.
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Re:Procrastination is driven by our desire to avoid difficul... by markus_zhang on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @06:31PM (#23545105)
Yeah I can complete anything if it's someone else request, or at least if I can convince myself it will be used by someone else. But I don't work as a programmer so I don't get a lot of those requests.

On the other side, if it's purely from my impulse then I found it difficult to finish it.

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Re:Procrastination is driven by our desire to avoid difficul... by nicbou on Thursday June 18, 2020 @04:33AM (#23561042)
Does it solve a problem you have?

My longest-running projects are all in active use. I maintain them because they are useful to me, and update them to fit my needs.

It's a lot harder to maintain something for an imaginary customer.

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Re:Procrastination is driven by our desire to avoid difficul... by markus_zhang on Thursday June 18, 2020 @12:12PM (#23564499)
>My longest-running projects are all in active use. I maintain them because they are useful to me, and update them to fit my needs.

This makes sense. A lot side projects (that are not for others but just for me) only spinned from semi-interest, not for active use. This could be the reason. Someone has to use it.

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