> it’s giving a lecture about the problems you’re pondering in the shower; it’s thinking out loud about the ways in which your project doesn’t work at all.
I'd love to do this. But I have learned that my brain does not work this way. The moment I explain my shower thought project to anyone, I immediately lose all interest in actually building it. I don't know why.
If I want to succeed building a new thing, I can not talk to anyone before I have actually built the first fully working version of it.
There's something called the goal disclosure effect where telling someone about your goals can reduce your motivation to achieve them.
There's also a 'dopamine reward prediction', where your brain releases dopamine for signals that you're on the path to success, which includes talking about, planning, or imagining success.
As a result I've also learned to not talk too much about anything I want to build before I actually have built something.
I feel like this article might be slightly different though in that you're moreso just thinking out loud, more like rubber ducky debugging than talking about some idealistic vision you're striving for.
I often feel that the interesting part of a project is working out how to do it in sufficient detail to be sure I can do it. But from then on it's just work and I lose interest even if the only person I have explained it to is myself.
All three just this month. Each of them took me several hours, because they're not vibe coded but carefully reviewed and refined until I was reasonably happy with the resulting code. Could I have written them myself? Sure. Would I ever have started without claude? Hell no.
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Offtopic: several of the embedded Bluesky posts at the end of the article show "The author of the quoted post has requested their posts not be displayed on external sites." Seems not to phase the PC Gamer "journalists".
[0] is a good article about this; not least that this has been happening since at least 1889 (to the point where I'd say we could now probably consider it a valid alternate spelling.)
These are quote-posts; the quote-post isn't protected but the quoted-post is. Bad choice by whoever wrote the article (in fairness the default Bluesky interface doesn't make this particularly clear), but nothing is being displayed that shouldn't be displayed.
It was, but for a very restricted number of users. For like 2 years people hoped to get a RPi Zero at $5 and as a result didn't buy boards by the competition (OrangePi, NanoPi, etc) which were becoming really good and cheap, although not at that price, if memory serves the NanoPi Duo (first model) was around $12. That move was the reason that pushed me to abandon the RPi for other brands and never look back.
I'd love to do this. But I have learned that my brain does not work this way. The moment I explain my shower thought project to anyone, I immediately lose all interest in actually building it. I don't know why.
If I want to succeed building a new thing, I can not talk to anyone before I have actually built the first fully working version of it.
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