Underestimating how long a task takes wrecks motivation

one of the easiest ways I fuck up my motivation is by intending to do a task in under half an hour that on reflection will almost certainly take 1-2 hours to do well

Sep 28, 2022

pretty sure that's why I haven't written more Complice threads, for instance.

Intend (12/100 threads) @IntendApp · Aug 10, 2022

As the complice.co twitter account, I'm jumping on the "do 100 things" train and I'm going to write 100 threads that have something to do with Complice—as an app, as a philosophy, or as a workflow. For thread #1 I'm going to brainstorm ideas for threads:

applies on other scales too years ago I set out to make a drip newsletter, and got stuck when I introspected I realized I'd allocated enough time to make a shit version, and that I didn't WANT to make a shit newsletter but that I ALSO didn't want to spend more time answer: quit

as @AskYatharth points out, this is sort of a special case of knot-doing: > You know that thing where you spend a lot of time NOT doing something? malcolmocean.com/2021/11/knot-d…