Comments on: Whenever I Go Away, I Want to Start Anew… http://dot.romkey.com/2009/05/13/whenever-i-go-away-i-want-to-start-anew/ Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 14 May 2009 02:59:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: luke.ethersmith.com/ http://dot.romkey.com/2009/05/13/whenever-i-go-away-i-want-to-start-anew/comment-page-1/#comment-18 luke.ethersmith.com/ Thu, 14 May 2009 02:59:16 +0000 http://dot.romkey.com/2009/05/13/whenever-i-go-away-i-want-to-start-anew/#comment-18 My home directories over the years have been littered with half-finished projects that I never found the motivation to "polish and publish". I've found that having a few users on a system can be both a blessing and a curse; when I want to work on it, I feel like I'm doing something useful for other people, but when I don't, it's a monkey on my back. My brother described it as "seeing there is being there", in the context of a daily jog; he noticed that he'd let himself start his cool-down walking when he got within sight of home rather than running all the way to the finish. " My home directories over the years have been littered with half-finished projects that I never found the motivation to “polish and publish”. I’ve found that having a few users on a system can be both a blessing and a curse; when I want to work on it, I feel like I’m doing something useful for other people, but when I don’t, it’s a monkey on my back.

My brother described it as “seeing there is being there”, in the context of a daily jog; he noticed that he’d let himself start his cool-down walking when he got within sight of home rather than running all the way to the finish. “

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