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Interesting topic! From my own experience you indeed lose everything by not making clear cut choices. But "sacrifice" means you already consider the project you are giving up as a part of yourself. For me the best way to stay focused and in the same time not being frustrated is to set yourself deadlines on the projects you are on and avoid projecting yourself elsewhere until they are reached.
I think something interesting and related is the ability to sacrifice personal activities for a project. I've tried working on projects with many friends that just could not sacrifice part of their weekends with their girlfriends to do work. Or they were "too tired" after their day job to work on side project but could play video games. Some people won't even sacrifice some sleep!
Sacrificing sleep is probably worst kind of sacrifice. When you do not get good sleep you are losing a lot of efficiency the next day. So, it is not worth it most of the time.
But there are cases when you should lose sleep. If your service is down you must sacrifice sleep and keep going until it is fixed. I have done my share of that.
But there are cases when you should lose sleep. If your service is down you must sacrifice sleep and keep going until it is fixed. I have done my share of that.
One thing you have to look at is synergy. Open source projects can be business projects.
This was certainly the case for Open Exchange Rates [0] – it was a successful open source project for a year before life and commitments forced me to either shut it down or business it up.
I took the latter path, and now it allows me to keep working on it full-time... but I did have to forcibly sacrifice (I say scupper) some other projects, which I have no doubt would have been equally successful.
[0] https://openexchangerates.org
I took the latter path, and now it allows me to keep working on it full-time... but I did have to forcibly sacrifice (I say scupper) some other projects, which I have no doubt would have been equally successful.
[0] https://openexchangerates.org
Hey joss, I'm really interested in markets for data like the one you're running... Let's talk!
Hey Paul! Couldn't see an email address in your profile but you can reach me on [email protected] :)
A pretty good approach. I need to start doing this. Thanks for posting! :3
I'll tend to manage my time by email a lot, but then if I get beyond inbox zero, I'll process certain things I'm lagging on into my todo list. A lot of my email also files into labels for certain business functions or partners/clients, skipping the inbox, but remaining unread so I can do it in blocks.