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Will anyone else notice? When I am doing DIY I always want it to be perfect, because I know the project inside out. I know where I had to cut a corner or where
by celticninja 8y ago
Will anyone else notice?
When I am doing DIY I always want it to be perfect, because I know the project inside out. I know where I had to cut a corner or where some ends didn't quite meet and had to be filled, where a seam isn't as invisible as I would like. To stop myself obsessing over the tiny details I ask myself, will my wife notice it? If she would then it's worth spending a bit more time on, if she wouldn't notice it, do the best you can and move on with more important jobs. Once the job is finished I can go back to that little issue that only I know about and tweak it so it is better.
In software just build it, make it do the minimum required however you can and then tidy it up and make it extendable/modular etc.
- rebelhit 8y agoI guess yes. I recently found out that some part of my motivations about doing things has been getting feedback from people (It releases dopamine and makes you feel validated). I used to be a software engineer and I'm somehow obsessed with designing software architectures with minimum cost of change in future. It makes me crazy to design something on-the-fly without considering the cost of changes. That's the reason I have obsession for writing general-purpose abstract codes... It really makes me crazy but I don't know what to do with it...
- celticninja 8y agoGetting feedback is good, but you want feedback on what the product does, not how it does it. Personally I prefer to get feedback that tells me why something I did was the wrong way as long as I also get told why and what the correct way would be. That way I can improve my software and learn something at the same time. Being told my solution is e.g elegant, is nice in the short term but less helpful in the long term