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> Get married, buy a house, have kids. Then you know you have to finish your work because you are responsible for others. That’s like shooting yourself in the leg because you want stronger arms, and putting yourself in a wheelchair will help with that.
You'd be surprised how great the motivation is when you have a kid. Especially the first years. And I was thinking just like you before taking this step.
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> Get married, buy a house, have kids. Then you know you have to finish your work because you are responsible for others. That’s like shooting yourself in the leg because you want stronger arms, and putting yourself in a wheelchair will help with that.
You'd be surprised how great the motivation is when you have a kid. Especially the first years. And I was thinking just like you before taking this step.
One day, you will be dead. Each year that passes after your death, fewer and fewer people will remember who you were, what you did or what your face looked like. Eventually, you'll be completely forgotten. Who cares if that side project you put out sucked or not. Might as well put it out there and see what people think. There's a good chance too that the project won't even be remembered even by the time you die. The…
"One day even Socrates will be forgotten."
One day, you will be dead. Each year that passes after your death, fewer and fewer people will remember who you were, what you did or what your face looked like. Eventually, you'll be completely forgotten. Who cares if that side project you put out sucked or not. Might as well put it out there and see what people think. There's a good chance too that the project won't even be remembered even by the time you die. The…
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> Get married, buy a house, have kids. Then you know you have to finish your work because you are responsible for others. That’s like shooting yourself in the leg because you want stronger arms, and putting yourself in a wheelchair will help with that.
You'd be surprised how great the motivation is when you have a kid. Especially the first years. And I was thinking just like you before taking this step.
My boss knew me for years before the birth of my children and has a few more years after to compare. He tells me he witnessed no less than a transformation.
I feel like I could have 'timed' it better. I feel I could have saved more and all of that. But then I wouldn't be the type of person who cared about those things until I became a father.
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This seems like a very effective solution, thanks for the idea.
No problem. We're going to start a new group (and also do a web site and an app), maybe you'd like to join?
I might wanna join
If we absolutely have to do that billing module, it's very demotivating. But if we, by choice, choose to do the billing module, it's much more motivating.
This is where Scrum either succeeds or fails. If a scrum master just decides to assign tasks for the week, the people doing them will be much less motivated. But scrum tricks the people doing the work into pulling it from the backlog, and choosing to work on it.
So somehow, you have to give yourself control over the project. Don't tell yourself you have to get it done. Look at it as a puzzle you want to solve, one where the documentation gives you hints, but not the solution. Be a hacker.