Though to dig slightly deeper -- urges to procrastinate what I "should" be working on appear when I face a hard problem with no hook on it (some hard problems drag me in; others push me away -- if I try sometimes I can convert the latter to the former just by breaking it down and choosing a place to start, but some problems are just boring-hard and that can't be fixed...).
Those urges often come in the form of "what OTHER more inviting problem can I solve?", and they are friggin' everywhere.
I already have a side-project that has lots of actual customers hoping for new features and so on, though, so it's usually pretty obvious to me that leaping into new thing #15 would be a bad idea. I have lots of domains names for them, though. :P
One of these days I will find someone I can pay to mostly take over that main side project, and then I'll allow myself to tinker with new things... I'm looking forward to that, actually.
But finding someone and getting them started is/will be hard, so when I think about that task I see lots of other more interesting problems around...
(Side note: anyone here know lots of Java and music theory, and want a spare-time income stream?)
Though to dig slightly deeper -- urges to procrastinate what I "should" be working on appear when I face a hard problem with no hook on it (some hard problems drag me in; others push me away -- if I try sometimes I can convert the latter to the former just by breaking it down and choosing a place to start, but some problems are just boring-hard and that can't be fixed...).
Those urges often come in the form of "what OTHER more inviting problem can I solve?", and they are friggin' everywhere.
I already have a side-project that has lots of actual customers hoping for new features and so on, though, so it's usually pretty obvious to me that leaping into new thing #15 would be a bad idea. I have lots of domains names for them, though. :P
One of these days I will find someone I can pay to mostly take over that main side project, and then I'll allow myself to tinker with new things... I'm looking forward to that, actually.
But finding someone and getting them started is/will be hard, so when I think about that task I see lots of other more interesting problems around...
(Side note: anyone here know lots of Java and music theory, and want a spare-time income stream?)