Re:Ask HN: The “I want to do everything but end up doing not...
by sputknick on Saturday February 14, 2015 @07:49AM
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Let me put on my Project Management hat for a moment. I think you first need to enumerate, at the highest level what you want to achieve, should be one sentence or less. Maybe its "Become a world class python oriented Data Scientist". Under that you can break that down into four-ish domains you need to learn, in this case, Statistics, Python, Data Science, Data Visualization. From there break it down into subjects under those domains, each one being maybe 20-200 hours of work. Continue to break it down until you get to something you can accomplish in one sitting. One sitting is different for all people, for me it's about 50 minutes. Then when you sit down you don't have the cognitive overhead of trying to figure out what to do, it's already been done for you. From there, just knock out tasks one after another. Every few months re-examine to make sure you are on course. As far as tools, I use Trello to do this personnally, but there are others out there.
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Re:Ask HN: The “I want to do everything but end up doing not...
by Tad_Ghostly on Saturday February 14, 2015 @12:14PM
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This is the best practical answer in the thread—IF OP has a goal in mind. I suspect that is the real problem he needs to solve.
Re:Ask HN: The “I want to do everything but end up doing not...
by nacker-hews on Tuesday February 17, 2015 @08:00PM
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I am a fan of this practical approach as well. Start with outcomes and values, and break them down until you reach actionable steps. I like to approach this with a Getting Things Done workflow myself.