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cjet79  3mo ago (text post)   1194 thread views

Tinker Tuesday

This was really popular last week, I was really impressed with how many hardworking hobbyist type people we have here. It got me motivated to do some of my own things.

As a reminder, this thread is for anyone working on personal projects to share their progress, and hold themselves somewhat accountable to a group of peers. We can coordinate weekly standup type meetings if their is interest.

Post your project, your progress from last week, and what you hope to accomplish this week.

Also naming the thread. Tinker Tuesday or taskmaster Tuesday, or something else? I switched the thread to Tuesday instead of Monday because the culture war thread refreshes on Monday.

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So, who wants get slapped?

The idea for this thread came from my tongue in cheek job posting for the slapper-in-chief in the last HighSpace thread. The idea being that I'd have to regularly do the "post your progress, and what you hope to accomplish", and if I went lazy they'd go "Hey Arjin, how's your work going, Arjin? You said you'll do XYZ last week Arjin, what's the status on that?" Consider this an open invitation to do exactly that to me, if I don't report in the weekly Tinker thread, but I was curious, does anyone want a similar service? I remember a few people from last week mentioning they want to hold themselves to account, and this would be a way to have a bit more enforcement that just voluntarily posting... though I also could imagine it getting annoying / stressful, so it's probably not for everyone.

I have a wife for that.

Yeah, but my wife tends to nag me about doing things that are actually useful.

Have tried a gajillion types of accountability, and find I rebel against it all. I might want to do it the day I ask for the accountability, and I might still want it done a week later, but at the time I’m supposed to be doing it, I can’t make myself do it and revert to something more interesting and rewarding (in the short term). Maybe that means my life won’t amount to more than a hill of beans, but maybe subconsciously what I really want is a hill of beans.

I know what you mean, though I also noticed that I do get focused when I'm running into a deadline, or there's some sort of a fire under my ass, so I'm hoping to emulate that.

But like you, previous attempts at self imposed accountability have been more annoying that successful, so I completely understand if people don't want to jump in.

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