Ask HN: How do I stop overthinking personal project management?

Re:Ask HN: How do I stop overthinking personal project manag... by Linusvq on Saturday September 23, 2023 @10:53AM (#37623793)

You are procrastinating. Your psychology is preventing you somehow from doing the work, because you have some inherent fear that is preventing you from getting started.

I am guilty of this too - I think we all are. It’s far easier to focus on productivity tools/processes because it feels productive, thus giving you feedback without actually doing the harder job of the actual work, and thus perhaps realizing your underlying fear of failure or fear of being judged / etc.

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Re:Ask HN: How do I stop overthinking personal project manag... by locallost on Saturday September 23, 2023 @11:14AM (#37624004)

I agree with this. Some other reasons could be:

1) you are afraid you will fail

2) you actually don't want to do that project. This could be a lot of different reasons: e.g. you get excited about ideas, but quickly lose interest etc.

They say everybody essentially writes about themselves, in this case very true.

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Re:Ask HN: How do I stop overthinking personal project manag... by itsmemattchung on Saturday September 23, 2023 @02:39PM (#37626080)

> They say everybody essentially writes about themselves, in this case very true.

Can you elaborate on this? Curious what you mean about how (in this instance) the OP is writing about themselves?

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Re:Ask HN: How do I stop overthinking personal project manag... by locallost on Saturday September 23, 2023 @03:28PM (#37626546)

I meant I was writing about myself, these are my typical issues.

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Re:Ask HN: How do I stop overthinking personal project manag... by grvdrm on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @06:36AM (#37657259)

That last line is so true - sounds like a copying mechanism. Reminded me of this Substack post:

https://theteardown.substack.com/p/notes-about-notes

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