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Same here but I don't really consider it a problem. I work on personal projects a few days or weeks at a time and then after solving the first set of big probl
by yason 13y ago
Same here but I don't really consider it a problem.
I work on personal projects a few days or weeks at a time and then after solving the first set of big problems I generally let it slip and lose interest. The source code lives on my hard drive and then one weekend next year or a few years later I remember what I had been writing and I come to revisit it. Maybe I rewrite the program or extend it up to the next level, or just look at it and think "That's where I was, mentally, in 2010; I think I've made progress since, I'm not the same programmer anymore."
I place no intrinsic value on finishing the projects itself because then they would start to resemble work and I want my hobby projects to be fun.
At work I procrastinate too but that's mostly doing the more interesting tasks or tasks with the highest impact first and the less interesting tasks only when really, really needed. So I don't basically procrastinate, I just prioritize.
I think procrastination is prioritizing, really.
And sometimes you prioritize complete idling over doing anything at all which I think just tells that you were trying to do the wrong thing because if you weren't you would have forgotten to eat while staying up doing it.
- meowface 13y ago>I place no intrinsic value on finishing the projects itself because then they would start to resemble work and I want my hobby projects to be fun. Absolutely. The joy is mostly in the idea-making, building, and shaping process. Actually "shipping the product" turns the fun into work. For better or worse though, most currently successful projects are one person's hobby that's eventually turned into a final product. And there is definitely some intrinsic value in success, and in providing something useful to others, even if it's a different kind of goal.
- _sabe_ 13y agoI used to think this way too. For every project I tend to learn a lot of new things, which has a value in it self, even tough I never finish the entire project. But during the last years I've been switching work places and having constant trouble fitting in to social constructions, and I keep thinking I would be much happier being self-employed. And to do that I need to start following trough.