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This article is a bit older but still relevant[0]. I do more or less this, most of the stack is proven tech I know then I might swap out a few components with s

by jamil7 6y ago

This article is a bit older but still relevant[0]. I do more or less this, most of the stack is proven tech I know then I might swap out a few components with something newer or more shiny, evaluate and may or may not take that new thing into the next project. [0] https://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology https://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology

mitchtbaum 6y ago
Yes, and if you're looking for an innovative and provably-high-quality solution stack, checkout Speakeasy https://github.com/speakeasy-engine https://github.com/speakeasy-engine
dgb23 6y ago
This is a very pragmatic approach, I like it. But I want to share an alternative to this because it helped me greatly in the past: Sometimes this kind of decision fatigue is actually clouding something more profound and you might be on to something valuable, some kind of truth that is hidden away and still needs to come out. Your decisions get blocked (from your subconciousness?), because you know this in some way and you cannot quite grasp why that is yet. The hard part is to decide whether this is the case at all. I don't have a silver bullet for this, but one thing that helps is to try to be optimistically self-critical. If you determine that this is actually the case: You have found some deeper idea/connection that you don't understand enough yet. Then you want to explore the idea by writing prototypes and text to figure out whether there is some pragmatic core that you can extract. Note that sometimes these ideas are positives or rather solutions. But often they are problem statements or criticisms. The latter needs more exploration, often with different technologies.
- jamil7 6y ago
  This is an interesting idea, are you suggesting that sometimes what manifests itself as decision fatigue is actually stemming from lack of a deeper understanding of the problem? I will try to apply that.
  - dgb23 6y ago
    > This is an interesting idea, are you suggesting that sometimes what manifests itself as decision fatigue is actually stemming from lack of a deeper understanding of the problem? This can easily stand on its own as a general reason yes. But I meant specifically in combination of having some "rough diamond" (please excuse the pathos) that is nagging you in the back of your mind and blocking decisions because you are not pursuing to find and polish it. Often the pragmatic or "boring" approach is just right. But sometimes it isn't because of a reason that is hard to articulate and it just doesn't leave you alone. I think this is the nature of the creative process. Being brave and exploring it would be the "right way" in this case to figure out whether the idea is feasible or sound, (which it often isn't, but you can't help it and figuring this out is valuable in of itself).

by jamil7 6y ago

mitchtbaum 6y ago

Yes, and if you're looking for an innovative and provably-high-quality solution stack, checkout Speakeasy https://github.com/speakeasy-engine https://github.com/speakeasy-engine

dgb23 6y ago

This is a very pragmatic approach, I like it. But I want to share an alternative to this because it helped me greatly in the past: Sometimes this kind of decision fatigue is actually clouding something more profound and you might be on to something valuable, some kind of truth that is hidden away and still needs to come out. Your decisions get blocked (from your subconciousness?), because you know this in some way and you cannot quite grasp why that is yet. The hard part is to decide whether this is the case at all. I don't have a silver bullet for this, but one thing that helps is to try to be optimistically self-critical. If you determine that this is actually the case: You have found some deeper idea/connection that you don't understand enough yet. Then you want to explore the idea by writing prototypes and text to figure out whether there is some pragmatic core that you can extract. Note that sometimes these ideas are positives or rather solutions. But often they are problem statements or criticisms. The latter needs more exploration, often with different technologies.

jamil7 6y ago
This is an interesting idea, are you suggesting that sometimes what manifests itself as decision fatigue is actually stemming from lack of a deeper understanding of the problem? I will try to apply that.
- dgb23 6y ago
  > This is an interesting idea, are you suggesting that sometimes what manifests itself as decision fatigue is actually stemming from lack of a deeper understanding of the problem? This can easily stand on its own as a general reason yes. But I meant specifically in combination of having some "rough diamond" (please excuse the pathos) that is nagging you in the back of your mind and blocking decisions because you are not pursuing to find and polish it. Often the pragmatic or "boring" approach is just right. But sometimes it isn't because of a reason that is hard to articulate and it just doesn't leave you alone. I think this is the nature of the creative process. Being brave and exploring it would be the "right way" in this case to figure out whether the idea is feasible or sound, (which it often isn't, but you can't help it and figuring this out is valuable in of itself).