Sadly, I know a lot of hackers that suffer from not finishing. If there is one thing I've learned from working many years as a PM, even average ideas can become big with a team that executes well and know how to finish. It's what separates great entrepreneurs.
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#12I like that this note about discipline has itself become a distraction. To be true to the note would have meant finishing an idea in progress, rather than browsing to HN and posting.
Well, unless OP thought it was useful enough to share.
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#14Nice. I find that keeping a little ledger on top of your desk and writing down every idea that pops in your head is also a very good habit. And you often realize "some great idea you had wasn't that great at all" (pg).
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#15I'd love to convince you to beemind projects that you want to force yourself to see to fruition. http://beeminder.com (I'm a co-founder)
If I'm lucky others will chime in to back me up that it's astoundingly effective for exactly the psychology you describe. We can unambiguously say that Beeminder itself wouldn't have survived without beeminding it. :)
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#16Happens to me all the time, new ideas seem more appealing, perhaps easier to implement, and more profitable. so why not move on ?
I would modify this note to be "Actually finish an MVP then move on"
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#17Closes HN and continues coding
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#18http://www.workflowy.com
Life-changing.
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#19Ideas are a dime a dozen. Execution is the only thing that matters.
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#20This is a bit philosophical: how would you know that you're finished, and that it's time to move on?