when to start? when to stop?

[@Luck_x_Luck]

I like your framing of "what corners am I preserving that I don't actually need to be". last week I feel like ive been wasting a lot of time at work with some source material/part that was known to be unreliable while trying to fix something else. should've proceeded with the next part much more often than getting hung up on 'but it worked the previous time I used it'. making the part reliable wasn't my job and it cost me a lot of time which I regret.

[@grobolomo2055]

man the "visa keeps making extremely useful sense" to "why don't you actually get around to reading his shit" pipeline keeps getting wider all the time.....someday....

[@kushalpsv]

Visa, about "you should quit when you feel its time to quit", but what if the feeling is just to escape short term pain but looking back it feels worth it to pushing back against the feeling and completing, how do you distinguish between genuine feeling of "this most probably wont work" lets pack it aside and low level urge to just give up when difficulty sets in "this is too much effort, I could do xyz and get better results right now" which might feel good since it feels like progress, but you are stuck in a pit of low level effort which is not good enough if you want to perform at higher level and achieve higher goals?

[@visakanv]

@@kushalpsv idk if there’s anything better than trial and error really

[@kushalpsv]

@@visakanv thanks visa, itseems that I am mostly afraid of not achieving (failure) what I intend/want, that I get paralysed of taking such decisions, may be reframing those decisions might be helpful. (when someone says trial and error, the error part triggers the failure aversion part of me)

[@visakanv]

@@kushalpsv the thing is to be clear about what the costs of those errors are. if you can make them safe/survivable then it's just part of the learning process