TLDR: Motivate yourself with - 1. Pick idea personally interesting to you (seems self-evident) 2. Use time box (not a new idea, and mostly a known concept) 3

TLDR: Motivate yourself with - 1. Pick idea personally interesting to you (seems self-evident) 2. Use time box (not a new idea, and mostly a known concept) 3. Use external accountability (also not a new idea, and mostly a known concept) So, it's kind of a shallow piece not really introducing new information to me. What I don't get is all the hate on HN--which is a sad state. I get the perhaps accidentally inflammatory tone of the article, which is "you have enough time, what you need is motivation." It can be offensive to people who are struggling with kids and literally have no more time, but really want to work on side projects ... to have some random dude on the internet say, "look man, all you need is just more motivation!" Okay, I get that. So for the Hackernoon editor: maybe less shallow and potentially presumptuous pieces that offends people with kids. And for the people with kids or some life circumstance that prevents you from doing side projects but are extremely motivated: no need to be sarcastic about how difficult life is to raise a kid on Hacker News.