3 ms·
Ask HN: How do you handle boreout?
I re-factored the spine of my start-up's code base to eliminate a code-smell, and in the process of fixing every test, I bored myself to the point where I don't have motivation to continue. I'm currently resisting taking the day off to play video-games.
How do you cope with this?
- Yxven 15y agoFor those unfamiliar with boreout: http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boreout http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boreout (I just learned about it when googling for burnout)
- ido 15y agoTake the day off to play video-games!
- chris_dcosta 15y agoTake a whole week preferably 10 days off. Try not to resist the tempatation, you'll expend more effort feeling guilty, and that's equally non-productive. I know from experience that it is completely counter-intuitive if you care about your project to just forget it for a while, but I also found that I was able to focus better on the real priorities when I dropped the ball, and had to restart.
- wavephorm 15y agoSounds like you need a day off to play video games.