Comments on: What I Learned During My Blogging Trial http://tod.fm/what-i-learned-during-my-blogging-trial/ :) Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:19:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: tod http://tod.fm/what-i-learned-during-my-blogging-trial/#comment-42 tod Sat, 06 Mar 2010 11:15:31 +0000 http://Blog.ByTod.com/?p=308#comment-42 Incredible. I didn't think that post was anything special. The response has been amazing so far. Thanks for your comments, and thanks for blogging also (I remember that you had a great thing about bad epistemology killing millions, re: diet). Incredible. I didn’t think that post was anything special. The response has been amazing so far. Thanks for your comments, and thanks for blogging also (I remember that you had a great thing about bad epistemology killing millions, re: diet).

]]> By: Benjamin Skipper http://tod.fm/what-i-learned-during-my-blogging-trial/#comment-41 Benjamin Skipper Sat, 06 Mar 2010 04:08:26 +0000 http://Blog.ByTod.com/?p=308#comment-41 Hopefully at the end of this trial you will keep writing for the long-term! Your theme, how to live optimally, is immensely interesting to me and I find your articles extremely practical. Just in this article you have pointed out to me my own problems with writing which have prevented me from updating my own blog as often as I'd like: procrastination and obsessive perfectionism. Now I'll work to make myself maintain inertia once I get to actual writing and to worry less about making everything Platonically perfect. Keep on! Hopefully at the end of this trial you will keep writing for the long-term! Your theme, how to live optimally, is immensely interesting to me and I find your articles extremely practical. Just in this article you have pointed out to me my own problems with writing which have prevented me from updating my own blog as often as I’d like: procrastination and obsessive perfectionism. Now I’ll work to make myself maintain inertia once I get to actual writing and to worry less about making everything Platonically perfect.

Keep on!

]]> By: kelleyn http://tod.fm/what-i-learned-during-my-blogging-trial/#comment-40 kelleyn Fri, 05 Mar 2010 02:17:00 +0000 http://Blog.ByTod.com/?p=308#comment-40 I've struggled with perfectionism too, and I think it is only partly due to my high standards. Lately I've come to admit how I've internalized the judgments of others, especially those who are not so rational or supportive. Nit picking at mistakes is one of the methods that the crabs at the bottom of the bucket use to pull the breakaways back down. What's really helped me get past it has been discussions on blogs such as Coding Horror and Joel on Software. "Shipping is a feature", "release early and often", and "don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good" are the phrases I've picked up and held on to. Seeing imperfections in others' unquestionably good code, even that of rock star programmers, helped me learn to be less hard on myself. (Of course, in writing free software I can fix mistakes in a later release. That option isn't available to everybody.) I’ve struggled with perfectionism too, and I think it is only partly due to my high standards. Lately I’ve come to admit how I’ve internalized the judgments of others, especially those who are not so rational or supportive. Nit picking at mistakes is one of the methods that the crabs at the bottom of the bucket use to pull the breakaways back down.

What’s really helped me get past it has been discussions on blogs such as Coding Horror and Joel on Software. “Shipping is a feature”, “release early and often”, and “don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good” are the phrases I’ve picked up and held on to. Seeing imperfections in others’ unquestionably good code, even that of rock star programmers, helped me learn to be less hard on myself.

(Of course, in writing free software I can fix mistakes in a later release. That option isn’t available to everybody.)

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