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Are you offering help to people, or just curious about support networks? I'm mainly trying to motivate myself to write up a paper on relatively old data: dealing with my usual problem that I am more excited about newer projects, even though the older ones are not completed. Help would be nice but it's essentially my sole responsibility to prepare a first draft, after which my coauthors will contribute.
What are you working on, and do you need help?
I prompting discussion of these things in case any parties would like to help and/or be helped. Sometimes people who want to help don't feel like starting the discussion, and same for those who want help. But if we're all just mentioning what we're doing, perhaps people can help in ways we hadn't even thought of.
I'd be happy to help if my skills and interest set matches your hopes for a coauthor. I highly doubt that since I'm just a lowly grad student.
I'm working on a social enterprise, my rationality, working out some procedural things with two collaborators on two seperate projects, and getting my notes and records better organised. Don't really need any help from online for those things except rationality, and make pleas for help about that here all the time anyway. Thanks for asking.
I see.... but buried deep in the open thread it's not likely to be seen by many, and not very clear what you are trying to get out of such a brief, open-ended comment when originally posted.
For example, I misunderstood your intent, and thought you were talking more generally about problem solving and social support, vs. requesting help from LW's users.
I am interested in the paper on the topic; if you drop what you have into a google doc and PM me the link I will add my thoughts. (I have similar troubles with old/new projects)
Sorry, my comment was ambiguous - I am not writing a paper on this subject but am struggling with finishing old projects on other topics, while being seduced by novelty. Writing up my thoughts on old/new projects would make the problem worse as this is well outside the field I need to make progress in to keep a desk over my head.
a suggestion: If you consider the salience of completion more strongly, you might be able to motivate yourself to complete a half-done project sooner than a zero-done project.
Obviously the draw of the new-shiny project is significant and likely to be more interesting because it is novel. The finishing reward is further away though.
Consider: Making a list of what is left to do on this existing project. You might be suffering from a difficulty in knowing what to do next (which masks itself in akrasia and new shiny project feelings). At some point after doing all the obviously easy parts to the project we are left with the not-obviously easy parts (if all the parts were obvious and easy we would be done with the task).