<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Motivation on John Stowers</title><link>https://johnstowers.co.nz/tags/motivation/</link><description>Recent content in Motivation on John Stowers</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:06:09 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://johnstowers.co.nz/tags/motivation/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Motivation....</title><link>https://johnstowers.co.nz/2006/04/23/motivation/</link><pubDate>Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:06:09 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://johnstowers.co.nz/2006/04/23/motivation/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;Nobody should start to undertake a large project. You start with a small &lt;em&gt;trivial&lt;/em&gt; project, and you should never expect it to get large. If you do, you&amp;rsquo;ll just overdesign and generally think it is more important than it likely is at that stage. Or worse, you might be scared away by the sheer size of the work you envision.
So start small, and think about the details. Don&amp;rsquo;t think about some big picture and fancy design. If it doesn&amp;rsquo;t solve some fairly immediate need, it&amp;rsquo;s almost certainly over-designed. And don&amp;rsquo;t expect people to jump in and help you. That&amp;rsquo;s not how these things work. You need to get something half-way &lt;em&gt;useful&lt;/em&gt; first, and then others will say &amp;ldquo;hey, that &lt;em&gt;almost&lt;/em&gt; works for me&amp;rdquo;, and they&amp;rsquo;ll get involved in the project. &amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>