Doing the thing is doing the thing
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Doing the thing is doing the thing
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#2As a person with ADHD, I feel personally attacked.
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#3As a person with ADHD, I feel personally attacked.
Same. I'm tempted to print this post out and hang it for inspiration. But I guess that would also not be doing the thing.
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#4This is very similar to [1] (as discussed here [2]). It is a good message though, which is why I remember the earlier post at all.
1. https://strangestloop.io/essays/things-that-arent-doing-the-...
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#5On the other hand.. planning, preparation and mise-en-place can help with doing the thing.
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#6As a person with ADHD, I feel personally attacked.
I guess you understand this and are making a joke, but that "attack" would appear to be intentional (and motivating).
I find that I don't have major issues doing a thing once I get started on it. The main problem is choosing from among many things that I could reasonably consider "the thing", and then feeling confident enough in that choice to start.
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#7As a person with ADHD, I feel personally attacked.
I guess you understand this and are making a joke, but that "attack" would appear to be intentional (and motivating). I find that I don't have major issues doing a thing once I get started on it. The main problem is choosing from among many things that I could reasonably consider "the thing", and then feeling confident enough in that choice to start.
This sounds not too dissimilar to the release the POC to prod mentality.
There are times where you obviously need to do the thing to understand the thing to see the process of doing the thing. This allows for breaking the process down into better steps. Just writing code to do things you think is doing thing but prove not to do the thing when actually doing the thing is common.
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#8As a person with ADHD, I feel personally attacked.
Same. I'm tempted to print this post out and hang it for inspiration. But I guess that would also not be doing the thing.
I have bad ADHD and printed the strangestloop.io blog post out and put it on the wall by my work desk in Oct 2023 according to the printout timestamp. I still haven't done the thing in some meaningful areas, and the print has honestly kind of been dispiriting. I'm going to take this post as the prompt to take it down.
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#9"Doing it badly is doing the thing."
This one works for me, and I've learned it from a post on HN. Whenever I feel stuck or overthink how to do something, just do it first - even with all the flaws that I'm already aware of, and if it feels almost painful to do it so badly. Then improve it a bit, then a bit, then before I know it a clear picture start to emerge... Feels like magic.
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#10As a person with ADHD, I feel personally attacked.
I guess you understand this and are making a joke, but that "attack" would appear to be intentional (and motivating). I find that I don't have major issues doing a thing once I get started on it. The main problem is choosing from among many things that I could reasonably consider "the thing", and then feeling confident enough in that choice to start.
What about doing the thing intently for a week and then realizing later you haven't touched the project in 6 months?