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>> I often tell myself to "just start" rather than to "just get it done," especially when I suspect my anxiety is driving. Same here, and specifically for tec
by TuringNYC 7y ago
>> I often tell myself to "just start" rather than to "just get it done," especially when I suspect my anxiety is driving.
Same here, and specifically for tech work: I try to start with a unit test and a random-generator algo. Getting that trivial thing to run is often the activation energy I need to get started on writing the main workhorse functions.
- lallysingh 7y agoExactly. Seed, trunk, branches. They last thing you want is to build something big that, when it does the wrong thing, leaves you with too much code that you're not sure about.