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Hi HN! This is probably the most important thing I ever learned, so I'll repeat it here for the people who only read the comments :) I found a way to work on m

• zahlman 8mo ago
  > Q2 category in the Eisenhower Matrix I thought I was in the target audience for this post, but now I'm entirely confused.
  • spongebobstoes 8mo ago
    Q2 means important, but not urgent. these tasks need to be scheduled or they don't get done Q1 is things that are both important and urgent it's a system popularized by Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • andai 8mo ago
    If you like not having terrible regrets, you are the target audience! I'm still getting the hang of explaining things, sorry ;) The Eisenhower Matrix is a system for deciding how to spend your time. There are two booleans, which combine into four quadrants. Here, I made a graph! https://files.catbox.moe/upo2zs.png https://files.catbox.moe/upo2zs.png Q1: Important and Urgent Q2: Important, not Urgent Q3: Not important, but Urgent Q4: Neither important nor Urgent I realized a while back that when people talk about their "dreams" in life, they're actually talking about Q2. They're talking about the category of things they want to do "someday", but which, unless they actively make time for, will never happen. Because, by definition, there is always something more urgent pressing for your attention. Q1 and Q3 "do themselves", in the sense that life will pressure you into dealing with them. There is no real pressure for Q2, except for the occasional "oh my god another year has passed and I have made no progress." So I strongly urge everyone to figure out what your Q2 is, and to schedule it first thing every morning. It had its own page, but nothing good lasts on Wikipedia!
• bob1029 8mo ago
  > Skipping days breaks momentum: I can't skip days This is my most important rule. I do not believe in "rest days" anymore. They are catastrophic for my ability to stay focused on a big project. This isn't to say I advocate for a 997 working hour system. I do believe in taking it easy and sometimes putting in the bare minimum, but a day with absolutely zero progress I cannot permit anymore. 24 hours is a long time. If I can't add a tiny amount of value each day, the project is probably dead. Especially a project like a game. The workflows for things like creating 3d models and scenes are generally so complicated that if you don't exercise them ~daily they will rot quickly. I open blender after not using it for a few months and it almost feels like I've never used it before. Not because I don't know how to use it (although I am far from an expert), but because the specific workflow that adds value to my project is not a straight line through space. It's a lot of steps and menu options to click through. Good luck remembering which UV unwrap presets you prefer for UV0 vs UV1 after a week of working on something unrelated. Just keeping the tool chain open & alive on my machine feels like 80% of the battle. If it's sitting there and in a good state to iterate with, I find myself automatically pulled toward it. If that battlefield 6 queue takes longer than 10 seconds, I will inevitably be alt-tabbed into Visual Studio or Unity.
  • andai 8mo ago
    The discipline of practice every day is essential. When I skip a day, I notice a difference in my playing. After two days, the critics notice, and after three days, so does the audience. —Jascha Heifetz