[zahlman]

I guess you understand this and are making a joke, but that "attack" would appear to be intentional (and motivating).

I find that I don't have major issues doing a thing once I get started on it. The main problem is choosing from among many things that I could reasonably consider "the thing", and then feeling confident enough in that choice to start.

[drivers99]

What about doing the thing intently for a week and then realizing later you haven't touched the project in 6 months?

[dylan604]

This sounds not too dissimilar to the release the POC to prod mentality.

There are times where you obviously need to do the thing to understand the thing to see the process of doing the thing. This allows for breaking the process down into better steps. Just writing code to do things you think is doing thing but prove not to do the thing when actually doing the thing is common.

[zahlman]

I'm talking about having completely different, unstarted, overall projects in mind.

[dylan604]

that sounds like paralysis by analysis. just pick a project and go.