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09 June 2012

years of contract work has left my entrepreneurial skills in decay. I'm trying to do a couple self driven projects and my brain is balking at the effort of making dozens of decisions every day about crafting the nature of the sites in question[More:]

I have found something that works though. Like, pros vs cons tallies don't really work for me cause I want to *feel* that some way is the right way to go, not just clinically pick one side. So I'm doing it through interior dialog like I was justifying the decisions to myself in conversation. It's schizophrenic, but it works. I think I want to do a lot of writing / planning on paper too that makes it easier than just rolling around issues in your head

I think if/when the projects take off and I have early collaborators and users etc things will become easier because then it's more consensus based and you don't have to divine the answer to every choice yourself
It's not schizophrenic, it's Gestalt Therapy!
posted by Obscure Reference 10 June | 05:27
In my experience taking timely decisions follows naturally from working towards a deadline.

So I'd make a plan for myself: when do I want to finish what? Is that feasible given the amount of time I can realistically spend?
And then when you have the plan stick to it. The decisions will present themselves, and your decision making ability will rise to the occasion.
posted by jouke 10 June | 14:11
you've hit on something jouke I realized that in a way pondering certain choices was a way for me to procrastinate a bit, like I spent a long time wondering how to integrate a certain twitter aspect into a portion of the site and then I was like, you know what, I'll figure out where to put this later, let me get the functionality itself done? And that took several hours itself (still ongoing)

Another thing, I made a decision about the content, and the next day while editing it realized that hard and fast rules won't work in a big collaborative content site have to be flexible about some things, so it's one of those issues where sure you have to plan for the future but you never know what the future holds so you have to be a bit agile and balance between planning and having the ability to change the plan
posted by Firas 10 June | 14:53
it's good though, this is psychologically good for me it's getting my creative juices flowing.. when I'm just 'working' I'm not really learning much or positioning myself as a public voice much but with a personal project I feel like oxygenated, I'm motivated to try hard problems, I'm interested in reconnecting with the online tech community, etc
posted by Firas 10 June | 15:01
I really want to play Magic with people || NPR: Failing And Flying

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