https://dumaron.github.io/tags/introspection/Recent content in Introspection on Duma's websiteHugoen-usThu, 26 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://dumaron.github.io/posts/2026-02-26_on_starting_too_many_projects/Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://dumaron.github.io/posts/2026-02-26_on_starting_too_many_projects/<p>One criticism that can be made to how I usually manage my life is that I start too many projects and finish too few of them. This has two effects on my productivity:</p> <ol> <li>continuously starting new projects scatters my energy across too many directions, reducing the number of completed projects per unit of time,</li> <li>many projects require me to leave things in a half-finished state (half-mounted furniture, half-cleaned keyboard, etc), massively increasing the confusion around me</li> </ol> <p>From these two objective facts, many negative feelings develop:</p>