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Work with the garage door up (2024)

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Re: Work with the garage door up (2024)

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Post by stavros »

tomhow wrote: post #125
alexpotato wrote: post #66

I forget where I read this quote but have always loved it: "When I was a teenager, I read about all of these Bay Area guys that launched startups from their garage. I thought 'Man, those guys must be really tough!'. Why? Because I'm from Canada and working in garages in the winter is really cold."

Here you go! https://www.paulgraham.com/marginal.html

> That's one of California's hidden advantages: the mild climate means there's lots of marginal space. In cold places that margin gets trimmed off.

Imagine living somewhere where you have so much spare space that the only issue is whether the weather is good enough to be comfortable in it.

Re: Work with the garage door up (2024)

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Post by ninalanyon »

giwook wrote: post #130
splitbrain wrote: post #129

> it’s giving a lecture about the problems you’re pondering in the shower; it’s thinking out loud about the ways in which your project doesn’t work at all. I'd love to do this. But I have learned that my brain does not work this way. The moment I explain my shower thought project to anyone, I immediately lose all interest in actually building it. I don't know why. If I want to succeed building a new thing, I can not…

This is a common occurrence I believe. There's something called the goal disclosure effect where telling someone about your goals can reduce your motivation to achieve them. There's also a 'dopamine reward prediction', where your brain releases dopamine for signals that you're on the path to success, which includes talking about, planning, or imagining success. As a result I've also learned to not talk too much about…

I often feel that the interesting part of a project is working out how to do it in sufficient detail to be sure I can do it. But from then on it's just work and I lose interest even if the only person I have explained it to is myself.

Re: Work with the garage door up (2024)

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Post by brightball »

majormajor wrote: post #111
dvt wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Curious as to why people think this (other than partisan trend-following). I've been on Twitter since 2009, and it's arguably in the best spot it's ever been, apart from Grok being pushed so aggressively. A lot of people still build publicly on Twitter. If you're conservative you can follow conservatives, if you're liberal you can follow liberals. I find Elon annoying, so I just muted his account because it seems lik…

>arguably in the best spot it's ever been, apart from Grok being pushed so aggressively So the best ever except for one of the biggest crap parts that didn't exist at all just a few years ago? Though actually I think it's just more people figuring out how the interests of social media companies aren't the same as their own interests, and Musk's very-visible fiddling with things drove home the "people are trying to to…

The ability to click the Grok button and have it privately research a claim in a post to see if there's anything else backing it up in realtime is extremely helpful.

That and the real time translation aspect leading to true global conversations right now is absolutely awesome.

Re: Work with the garage door up (2024)

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Post by brightball »

tayo42 wrote: post #46
mattkevan wrote: post #24

Genuinely curious where the best place online to do this is today. Until recently my reflexive answer would have been Twitter, but [gestures vaguely at the state of it]. Would it be Substack, Bluesky, Mastodon, a personal blog, or somewhere else? Maybe I'm overthinking it, but it's hard to know where to get started.

Does substack have a built in community like that? I thought you really needed to get people there or use it for the newsletter feature.

I occasionally remember to post to the substack feed and I'm typically surprised by the interaction. Substack in general is great just to build the email list though.

Re: Work with the garage door up (2024)

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Post by rexpop »

dvt wrote: post #69
cyberge99 wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Xtwitter is NOT the best place to be. For anything unless you’re a horny cryptobro.

Curious as to why people think this (other than partisan trend-following). I've been on Twitter since 2009, and it's arguably in the best spot it's ever been, apart from Grok being pushed so aggressively. A lot of people still build publicly on Twitter. If you're conservative you can follow conservatives, if you're liberal you can follow liberals. I find Elon annoying, so I just muted his account because it seems lik…

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Re: Work with the garage door up (2024)

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Post by [deleted] »

amelius wrote: post #126
alexpotato wrote: post #66

I forget where I read this quote but have always loved it: "When I was a teenager, I read about all of these Bay Area guys that launched startups from their garage. I thought 'Man, those guys must be really tough!'. Why? Because I'm from Canada and working in garages in the winter is really cold."

Without HVAC, it can still be tough.

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Re: Work with the garage door up (2024)

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Post by jkestner »

qiine wrote: post #127
regenschutz wrote: post #87

It definitely depends on the platform, though. On GitHub, absolutely, work with the garage door up. But on some platforms, it's the complete opposite. Many moons ago, I was making mod for a game and had the idea to publish it on Nexus Mods [0] so that I didn't have to bother setting anything up once I actually wanted to publish the initial release of the mod. It was not at all in a working state when I made the publi…

You didn't link your mod? Also I think fundamentally people on nexus mode assume: the mod is there=it work The majority of people on there are not familiar with software dev concepts, they just seek cool new content for their fav game.

I get most people don’t want to fight that perception, but it’s an opportunity to educate people on the process, and if enough people do this, it normalizes the idea of people working on things, instead of the idea that products are delivered from the heavenly forges of big tech.

It’s something I admire about the best Kickstarter projects, and the framing that the platform has provided (even if it’s marketing facade now). You post regular updates about what you’re doing, you resist the urge to look perfect, you demystify creation. I think that’s kind of important for society to trust how our modern world was made, too.

My kids are going to have an advantage in making things from scratch because they simply witness me doing it.

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