I call it creative ejaculationism. They all start swimming, but only one or two will get to the finish line. You can learn a lot from the ones who won’t make it, to help the one that will.
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(alt: picture of Facebook's mod report form, with "I'm in this photo and I don't like it" selected)
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I'm actually on track to finally rework and finish off a twenty year old creative project by the end of the month! 🎉🎉🎉
One (almost) down, eight to go!
Not pictured: unfinished, abandoned projects
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You may ask what I was building with all of these unfinished projects.
The thing I was building was myself.
I keep burning myself out with projects that sound great on paper, but take weeks to complete. Hosting my own Lemmy instance was one of those things. Was it fun? Kinda. Would I do it again? Hell no
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Or "thrifted objects and fantasy of the associated project" and "new shiny thing I found".
Slopcoding has made this so bad. But in the before time I was so burned out by work I couldn't get myself to program at home so they all stayed in my head
Mm, this seems ADHD.
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Baking trays and a baking rack can help organize all of your smaller physical projects.
Me opening my notepad to start a new song for the millionth time
Basically my game dev folder. I hit the Perforce free tier workspaces limit multiple times already.
At this point I've given up doing things. Every new project is just a clutter-generating waste.
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Don't forget the nepo baby coworker who is sitting on his phone off to the side doing fuck-all
This is a symptom of bipolar disorder.
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