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Re: Finish your projects

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Post by shrimp_emoji »

iandanforth wrote: post #194

"Those few people—the ones that actually finish—know the deep satisfaction of seeing something through to the end. It’s a satisfaction much deeper than the euphoric high of starting." For me, this is false. I see other people who jump for joy at winning, who seem to really really like overcoming obstacles, who do get some deep satisfaction from accomplishment. I don't. Winning and completion feel ok, but at their mos…

Yep. This is totally me.

It's as if my brain isn't wired to process "good news" or "triumph". The closest thing to that is rather final relief from some huge pain in the ass, and even that's fleeting. I think I could be told I just won a billion dollars, and I'd focus on whatever my next problem is in like 15 minutes.

And the things I do are usually not huge pains in the ass since I usually only do stuff when I enjoy the journey. The destination can be nice, but not just because I'm stoked about reaching it.

Re: Finish your projects

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Post by silcoon »

gmiller123456 wrote: post #43
jhp123 wrote: post #30

To take the contrary position: give up. Your project will take far longer than you think, and you will get much less from it than you hope (at least in terms of external validation and rewards). You may feel a horrible pressure to finish it, but you are a free person and can simply choose not to. You can free yourself from this pain without lifting a finger. Go take a walk or bake some cookies instead. If you have th…

Reminds me of The Onion skit where a guy spent 15 years writing a book on ant eaters only to realize it was a horrible waste of time. https://www.google.com/url?q=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv... Sometimes it best to trust your personal prioritization of when and when not to work on a project.

this video is pure gold

Re: Finish your projects

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Post by silcoon »

guzik wrote: post #171

About a decade ago, I was working on a mobile RPG game. I invested six industrious months, building it up to the brink of completion—just 3% short of its final version. The unpredictability of life, however, has its own plans. An unforeseen circumstance led the company I was collaborating with to dissolve, and simultaneously, a tech startup I had founded began to show the sprouts of success. Faced with this duality,…

A bit late, but what's the title of the game?

Re: Finish your projects

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Post by Gunnerhead »

guzik wrote: post #182
plewd wrote: post #176

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm curious, does the 3% number for how (relatively) close you were to finishing the game come from hindsight, or did you know that number while in the process of making the game (and if so, how?)

The 3% completion figure initially came from my estimate that only the outro was left to be done, which could feasibly be considered as around 3% of the overall game. However, I hadn't taken several factors into account: - Releasing on platforms and setting up a Steam account. - Marketing and creating promotional graphics. - Bug fixes that were discovered by hardcore gamers, who we didn't have access to for testing a…

Number 1 and 2 are _so_ time consuming. The number of apps I’ve code completed, but not released, is too damn high.

I hate creating screenshots (and then get an error that I didn’t mean the exact size/ratio required), banner/store/promo graphics, icons, a short/long description, title/subtitle/promo title, and filling out all the questions the App Store/Play Store ask. I become so extremely lazy at that point.

Re: Finish your projects

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Post by guzik »

silcoon wrote: post #223
guzik wrote: post #171

About a decade ago, I was working on a mobile RPG game. I invested six industrious months, building it up to the brink of completion—just 3% short of its final version. The unpredictability of life, however, has its own plans. An unforeseen circumstance led the company I was collaborating with to dissolve, and simultaneously, a tech startup I had founded began to show the sprouts of success. Faced with this duality,…

A bit late, but what's the title of the game?

Hellway (https://store.steampowered.com/app/2053250/Hellway/)

Re: Finish your projects

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Post by SanderNL »

JohnFen wrote: post #220
SanderNL wrote: post #208

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No, because I am less capable. It’s sometimes simple like that. He wasn’t “rich people” like some Russian oligarch. He had shit to do and deep moral obligations. Millions of lives depended on it. Things of vast strategic importance stretching both thousands of miles and many decades. Slaves don’t manage your long term ambitions and juggle your various mental and moral anguishes. They keep your house clean and provide…

> No, because I am less capable You know yourself better than I, obviously, but if you're assuming that because your path differs from theirs, I think you should have some doubt that the difference is because you are less capable. It may be that you have different values.

While I believe in equal value of human life, I don't think we are in any way equal in abilities both inborn and acquired. People like Aurelius are rare and dismissing him and his accomplishments as "rich people have it easy" doesn't do justice to both his skills and rather significant sacrifices. More importantly, it absolves us from taking a look at ourselves and the state of our lives.

He seems to have resisted, or rather, his particular ethical framework provided the power to resist two very big and very real problems:

"Mo money mo problems" (~Socrates)

"Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely" (~Shania Twain)

Re: Finish your projects

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Post by BigJ1211 »

gryn wrote: post #163
kaba0 wrote: post #133

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Caffeine though really is a jackpot for humanity, it has realistically speaking no negative side effects. Even serious physical symptoms from withdrawal are basically just a week of headaches and other minor things.

only if it has an effect on you, I tried it many times and the only effect it seems to have on me is the bitter taste and heart palpitations if I drink too much of it. if I'm tired or sleepy and drink it, I'm still tired/sleepy but with a higher blood pressure/heart rate. sometimes I wonder if it's just people that oversell the effect of coffee.

You might be like me and apparently 1/5th of the human population doesn't really feel the effects of caffeine. Basically goes in and out of your system without 'proper processing'. Been years since I read about it, so things might have become more clear.

I can drink coffee/red bull all day and it'll do very little. Can drink just before going to bed and sleep just fine.

I'll try to find the study on this again if you're interested.

Re: Finish your projects

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Post by perilunar »

SanderNL wrote: post #227
JohnFen wrote: post #220

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> No, because I am less capable You know yourself better than I, obviously, but if you're assuming that because your path differs from theirs, I think you should have some doubt that the difference is because you are less capable. It may be that you have different values.

While I believe in equal value of human life, I don't think we are in any way equal in abilities both inborn and acquired. People like Aurelius are rare and dismissing him and his accomplishments as "rich people have it easy" doesn't do justice to both his skills and rather significant sacrifices. More importantly, it absolves us from taking a look at ourselves and the state of our lives. He seems to have resisted, o…

> Shania Twain

Lol. Actually Lord Acton

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dalberg-Acton%2C_1st_Baro...

Re: Finish your projects

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Post by perilunar »

bayindirh wrote: post #186
kaba0 wrote: post #181

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From most studies I saw, moderate consumption ( Could you expand on what you found and what were the specifics?

I think moderate consumption is a function of tolerance and the specific metabolism of the person combined. I remember reading a comment in HN, where the commenter had a genetic trait which slowed caffeine metabolism by 4 times. So, he had it inside his system 4 times longer, and caffeine had no positive effect on him. However, let's not digress. I'm not a body hacker, and I don't like to mess with my body much, howe…

> Black tea is a good aid for sustaining my focus. It improves focus, but doesn't create the same stress on my body.

Black tea contains 30–90 mg of caffeine per cup (and some theobromine and theophylline, which are similar to caffeine, and also stimulants.) Giving up coffee because of the caffeine but dinking black tea instead is self-defeating.

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