A friend of mine did his PhD thesis on a passive radar that uses the GPS signal. I always found it such a brilliant idea, because the gps signal is everywhere and always available.
This is good advice for most human activities. I told my students these exact words (you gotta get comfortable being uncomfortable) countless times when teaching math and physics.
> Writing acceptance criteria is harder than writing a prompt, because it forces you to think through edge cases before you've seen them. Engineers resist it for the same reason they resisted TDD, because it feels slower at the start.
This resonates with my experience, and it is also a refreshing honest take: pushing back on heavy upfront process isn't laziness, it's just the natural engineers drive to build things and feel productive.
You are the project, and getting through your idea to something, is about building a better you. Which points back to the beginning:
--
Publish that novella, build an OS, converse in Mandarin, release an indie game, publish that other novella, dominate a continent --
--
Seem to be a lot of complaints about this post, I'm enjoying it. Interesting flow of thoughts and share similar frustration with all my ideas and trying to channel them, and get to something. If I get to something close to my thoughts that's a huge win for me.
reply