I always have loads of ideas for apps, websites, books, games. All sorts of things. Sometimes I pick something to put my time into well and make something I’m proud of, sometimes I waste a tonne of time and then give up / get bored / get excited by something else before I’ve finished.
I’m at the point of just finishing a year long project that turned into a published book (good choices, yay!) and now I need to start something new.
So I wondered, how do you, the good folk of HN decide which self directed projects to put your time into? How do you decide when to go ‘all in’ or abandon? Do you have a process for that or just a gut feel?
Thanks.
But in your question, what does "fully commit" mean?
Maybe something like, "I will spend all my time on this until it is done."
Maybe something like, "I will keep playing and see where it goes."
The first is short term.
The other long term.
Physically, we can go all in on something for the short term.
The smaller, probably the better.
What I repeatedly go all in on physically is what I have gone all in on in the second sense.
But what I don't repeatedly go all in on is not abandoned.
Just in the fridge.
Maybe molding in the fridge.
Then it's thrown out.
How something keeps in my fridge is a good test.
Will fermentation make it better or worse?
Again, I'm probably not a good example.