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> Or, you could stop beating yourself up about it and reframe the whole activity as a creative release. I think for some people this isn't better. If I feel li
by packetlost 2y ago
> Or, you could stop beating yourself up about it and reframe the whole activity as a creative release.
I think for some people this isn't better. If I feel like I'm not being productive in some capacity, I get depressed. It would happen frequently to me over the summers between school semesters, and it happens to me now by the end of a 1-week vacation. It might sound like a burnout path, but that's not what has historically lead me (personally) to burning out and I've been at this for like 10 years.
- yard2010 2y agoWhen I'm setting deadlines for myself, working fast to ship, making compromises due to time constraints I get depressed. When I'm working on a project for years and it has not yet shipped, I get depressed. Personally, I think the problem is not with each strategy, but with the context - time is money and money is time and I have pretty much none to spare.
- packetlost 2y agoYeah, context is definitely important. I also tend to work on projects that I personally find useful instead of trying to build products for other people, which probably plays heavily into it.