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This flippant commitment has proved to be seriously interesting. I need to think it through and take it seriously.
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Ok I’m not starting any more projects. At least not top-level projects. From now on I’m only finishing projects or killing them.
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Not arguing for closing off your brain or becoming hidebound with age, which of course is a risk this strategy can exacerbate. Just arguing that the “new projects” area should perhaps be off limits by default. Things with commitment to produce long-term outcomes.
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You can still do zero-commitment dabbling and pursue open-ended curiosities so long as they don’t get on your to-do list. The bar for getting into your project brain is that a commitment must fit within an existing commitment structure.
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One litmus test: if you can give it an independent name (or worse, buy a domain name) it’s a new project. If it only has a dependent name or subdomains, it fits existing commitment structure. So a proxy commitment is: I’m not buying any more domain names.
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i find a lot of the time i'm not even sure what the heck the deliverable ought to be, so i am averse to fixing it as a "project" prematurely
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