What are you working on?

jsalvatier

This is the fourth bimonthly What Are You Working On? thread. Thanks to atucker for reminding me to make this post. Click here to see previous threads. So here's the question:

What are you working on?

Here are some guidelines:

Focus on projects that you have recently made progress on, not projects that you're thinking about doing but haven't started, those are for a different thread.
Why this project and not others? Mention reasons why you're doing the project and/or why others should contribute to your project (if applicable).
Talk about your goals for the project.
Any kind of project is fair game: personal improvement, research project, art project, whatever.
Link to your work if it's linkable.

This is the fourth bimonthly What Are You Working On? thread. Thanks to atucker for reminding me to make this post. Click here to see previous threads. So here's the question:

What are you working on?

Here are some guidelines:

Focus on projects that you have recently made progress on, not projects that you're thinking about doing but haven't started, those are for a different thread.
Why this project and not others? Mention reasons why you're doing the project and/or why others should contribute to your project (if applicable).
Talk about your goals for the project.
Any kind of project is fair game: personal improvement, research project, art project, whatever.
Link to your work if it's linkable.

I originally intended to spend this year working on a computer game to submit to the IGF this fall. Then I found out that, having recent transitioned into adulthood, that adulthood is hard, and lots of things came up (and during the period earlier this year when I was putting in 20 hours a week on top of my regular job, I was able to do so mostly because I had just moved and didn't have any friends at the time. Thanks in part to the NYC Rationality group... I have friends now. So... thanks Less Wrong!)

Over the past two months, I've modified myself into someone with more flexible goals. I feel that I've been accomplishing worthwhile things in the past several weeks, even if those things are less grand in scale. I'm assigning myself smaller projects that can completed in a week or two. I'm not sure which of whether this is right call. It was embarrassing to give up on a project after putting a lot of work on it. I think it was a good learning experience to be able to accept the sunk cost and move on. But I'm not sure if I wasn't also saying "gah, this is too hard, I'm giving up." I'm pretty sure I overcame SOME kind of bias but I'm not sure which bias it was.

What I HAVE done, this week, was create some Harry Potter Fanfiction Fanart Fanart. I am not entirely sure how I feel about that, but I tried not doing it for a while and that wasn't working... and I think I'm pretty proud of the result. I wasn't going to post here because it seemed only tangentially relevant, but since you asked:

Spoilers for Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. Maximize your window before clicking for optimal effect.

I think you made the right call in appreciating it as a sunk cost, presumably you also got other benefits from teh process regardless. What are the smaller projects you've had success on?

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Epic.

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