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Re: How Doers Do

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Post by dyselon »

throwaway1979 wrote: post #7

No really ... how do doers do? I got married recently and have a full time job on weekdays. It has been an immense challenge to find time to work on personal projects now that I am no longer single. I've known some weight lifters who wake up early or go to bed very late in order to get in their workouts (I've had some success with this but have gotten overwhelmed after a few days). Any HNers have tips on how to live…

Just work with her to find time to do what you want. If you lay out some things that are important to you, ask her to give up some weeknights (or whatever it takes for you) with you in the code cave to help you get there, and are prepared to sacrifice the occasional inspired time when stuff that's super important to her comes up, you'll be fine. I mean, she's your wife. She wants to see you accomplish stuff that's important to you, right? Make her a partner in doing that. Like lots of stuff in marriage, its about communication and compromise. Congratulations on the marriage, by the way!

Re: How Doers Do

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Post by larrys »

hkon wrote: post #10
larrys wrote: post #3

I don't know Tom Preston-Werner etc. so this comment is based upon the OP's post and the twitter feed and what I have just read. Judging by the timing of the tweets it seems that TPW got into a manic episode and fixed a problem. While we have all done things like this from time to time I don't see it as an example of "how doers do". "Doers" should be firing on all cylinders all the time taking on things that can't be…

While I agree with your point, I do feel the need to point out that "finally doing some house cleaning" is not a manic episode. A manic episode is something that last a week and usually includes refactorings of more grandeur proportions

Correct - wrong use of "manic" to make my point.

For anyone interested:

http://psychcentral.com/lib/2006/what-is-a-manic-episode/

Re: How Doers Do

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Post by bhangi »

jonsterling wrote: post #5

I like how he summarizes the post he links to as “go out there and do something worthwhile and stop regaling your heroes for their ability to shut up and ship”, and then totally fails to take the point to heart, by writing a gushing piece about TPW and his “ability to shut up and ship”. Obnoxious.

Well, obnoxious may be too strong, but it is definitely ironic and self-unaware (or should that be un-self-aware?)

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Post by eat »

throwaway1979 wrote: post #7

No really ... how do doers do? I got married recently and have a full time job on weekdays. It has been an immense challenge to find time to work on personal projects now that I am no longer single. I've known some weight lifters who wake up early or go to bed very late in order to get in their workouts (I've had some success with this but have gotten overwhelmed after a few days). Any HNers have tips on how to live…

Realize you can't have everything...

Re: How Doers Do

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Post by kdaigle »

jonsterling wrote: post #5

I like how he summarizes the post he links to as “go out there and do something worthwhile and stop regaling your heroes for their ability to shut up and ship”, and then totally fails to take the point to heart, by writing a gushing piece about TPW and his “ability to shut up and ship”. Obnoxious.

Not ashamed to say I'm still working towards that ideal. My project is a start for me. It was too good of an example of doing that I couldn't point it out. It could have been anyone in my feed.

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Post by ChuckMcM »

throwaway1979 wrote: post #7

No really ... how do doers do? I got married recently and have a full time job on weekdays. It has been an immense challenge to find time to work on personal projects now that I am no longer single. I've known some weight lifters who wake up early or go to bed very late in order to get in their workouts (I've had some success with this but have gotten overwhelmed after a few days). Any HNers have tips on how to live…

Does your wife work? Do you have kids? Over the years my wife and I have gone back and forth on time splits. It doesn't help that I happen to be more of a night owl and she is more of an early riser, which means our natural tendencies tend to cut both ends of the day off from interaction.

The best thing that has worked for us is to communicate goals, so if I'm trying to get "X" done we'll work schedules to get time to work on it, and then if she is trying to get "Y" done we'll do the same for her. When we're doing "Z" which is high priority for both of us we we're just splitting up things to work on and doing them and time issues don't seem to pop up.

The key for us is that we're very supportive of each others goals, and when planned together we are both committed to making things successful. Problems arise when one of us goes heads down in some project and shuts the other out, leaving them to keep things going while the other gets their project done. That doesn't feel good to the person shut out. Things get dicey and we've got to recognize that something that should have been 'short and sweet' is taking way more time.

Re: How Doers Do

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Post by jodi »

This seems like he's really just diverting to a more fun project as a way to procrastinate and still feel productive. His Jekyll project will still have those pull requests and issues to weed through at the end of the day :)

Re: How Doers Do

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Post by orangethirty »

arocks wrote: post #4

It is amazing how today's technology favours the doers who inspires us with their actions. Almost anyone in the world can see and learn from their actions, thanks to technology. Decades ago leadership meant using powerful and inspiring words to move people into action. This led us to believe that people who could "communicate" well were natural leaders. Personally, I prefer "doers" to "talkers" as an inspirational mo…

Good leaders have always been doers. That's how they became leaders. Leading has never been about being good at speeches. It's about doing the work and making sure the work is done right.

Re: How Doers Do

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Post by b1daly »

larrys wrote: post #3

I don't know Tom Preston-Werner etc. so this comment is based upon the OP's post and the twitter feed and what I have just read. Judging by the timing of the tweets it seems that TPW got into a manic episode and fixed a problem. While we have all done things like this from time to time I don't see it as an example of "how doers do". "Doers" should be firing on all cylinders all the time taking on things that can't be…

Are you recommending "firing on all cylinders all the time?"

Not many people can do this that I know. I do know a few.

We need more advice for the average in this world.

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