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by ulamia 1520 days ago
Excellent video.

I like the ‘do’ advice.

> If I had one word of wisdom on learning it’s ‘do’. Don’t wait, ok? You’ll be waiting on Godot.

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I've got a dozen tronclub kits completely unopened. A 200mhz osciloscope I've only used to test the onboard signal generator. A decent electronic microscope. Solder paste in my fridge, never opened. A broken cheap chinese airgun that I was going to repair (I'm pretty sure it's just a capacitor blown out, but I couldn't find the correct value for it).

I'm the opposite of just "do", I research so much ahead of the "do" and the gap gets so big that it just feels incredibly hard to backtrack to where I last actually "did". It's like I eat dessert before the main course and just like my grandma said, I won't eat the main course because I ate the dessert.

I know the feeling.

And yet. When I was young and poor, a friend lent me his 4-track recorder for just one weekend and I knocked out 5 or 6 songs to make for one side of a cassette tape.

I think being resource-poor made me creative-rich. Now, not so much.

I understood this to be a game dev procrastinating joke, you'll be waiting for the Godot engine to be mature forever, instead just start making the game.

It turns out that Waiting for Godot is a play by Samuel Beckett in which two characters engage in a variety of discussions and encounters while awaiting the titular Godot, who never arrives..

It's not your fault you didn't know this, but it does say something about the breadth of education we receive
It is a classic play, the kind that local theatres regularly stage, I went to see it as a teenager but not through school.
A variant of analysis paralysis