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iamdistracted··on Ask HN: How can I stop switching between projects, and actually deliver?
> First of all cut yourself some slack here - it's your spare time, and you hard enough already. You don't need to do more than you are doing, and honestly if you ever don't want to be coding in your evenings you aren't less of a developer or human being if you go and write a book or take a karate class instead.

I have enough time to contribute to OSS, I just fail to do so, because I don't remain on the same idea for long enough.

> Maybe a local charity needs a nice salesforce setup and some coaching on how to use it and fit its workflow. Maybe some scientists need an app for data collection. Or your local Forrest rangers could do with some custom maps. Once you're committed you're committed, and you'll learn something new for sure.

The idea being that once I have identified a pressing need, I'll be more likely to stay on that idea? That sounds like it could work. Have you any experience with this approach?

iamdistracted··on Ask HN: How can I stop switching between projects, and actually deliver?
My performance in work is fine. I have ideas that are unrelated to work, that I want to implement in my free time. The problem is that I typically spend my free time just touching the surface of these ideas, rather than actually implementing them.