[atrilumen]

Thanks for this.

I've been struggling to work full time on a project for a few years now. I think it's the most important thing that I can do with my life now, so I refuse to let go for any reason. (I'm a US citizen literally starving in Colombia.)

I can't get traction the way I've been going, so I have to make radical changes immediately. Thanks for the list.

    1. Tenacity (check!)
    2. Logging  (need a lot of improvement. where has all my time gone?!)
    3. Compounding (I fear I'll be contemplating this one all day now)
    4. Defending your time (prob need to back off on this one; too lonely)

I'm really loving Musk's rhyme: If the schedule is long, it's wrong; if it's tight, it's right. I've been moving way too slowly, spending too much time on small details.

I need to do my thing more openly instead of hiding out with my head down; maybe I would have never done that first project reboot, and I'd have customers by now!

[jshowa3]

Except for the fact that Elon Musk nearly always misses his own deadlines so what's the point of that rhyme if you don't even know what the deadline should be?

Making deadlines tight for the sake of it makes no sense other than to keep you working longer. Not that that's a bad thing, but if you end up missing the deadline, well... I don't know what you would think then.

[atrilumen]

Good point. But I guess the lesson for me is to have deadlines in the first place. At least it gives you a target.

I think, "go! go! go!"... and then fuck around with small details until I go broke. I need way more awareness of the big picture.

It's so hard to balance. I need a partner, but I've really isolated myself at this point :(

[atrilumen]

Also, you learn from missing deadlines. So having deadlines must be valuable even if you consistently miss them.

[jshowa3]

I don't know. What I learn is that I either: a) suck b) am slow c) drastically underestimated my ability d) drastically underestimated the projects complexity

Either way, most of it is negative. I can't think of much good coming out of missing a deadline other than it makes you look incompetent.

[atrilumen]

And you're better off without learning those things? Man, if there's a problem, especially with me, I need to know it.

[jshowa3]

No. It's just most people don't view it as themselves being the problem. Which is why it's all mostly a lie.

Even Elon doesn't seem to care about why he misses deadlines because he keeps making them.