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SOFA - Start Often Finish rArely

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191 points pabs3 | 1 comments | 18 Oct 24 00:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.213s | source
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strken ◴[18 Oct 24 04:56 UTC] No.41876466[source]▶
It would be interesting to try the opposed but similar strategy of finishing absolutely everything but half-arsing the stuff I don't care about.

Might give more psychological closure, prevent me giving up, and could yield good results if there are a lot of cases where I was overthinking it.

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TeMPOraL ◴[18 Oct 24 06:46 UTC] No.41876928[source]▶
That's interesting. FEATHER - Finish Everything And Triumph, Half-assing Every choRe[0].

I think both this and the article's "SOFA" are useful frameworks to deal with perfectionism.

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[0] - Which I should have done here, instead of spending 10 minutes trying to find the right words for the acronym, and ultimately failing.

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1. kqr ◴[18 Oct 24 08:10 UTC] No.41877328[source]▶
I'm trying to decide if I prefer

- LIMP – Low-effort Implementation Makes Progress; or

- FINAL – Finish It Now, Amplify Later.

The first highlights how the point is to get somewhere, and floating around like a Brownian particle is not a good strategy for that. Setting up tiny gradients in the right direction will.

I like the second because it makes it clear that just because one finishes for now does not mean one cannot re-open the project later.