Optimism

One thing which I find universal among people trying to make something is optimism, or at the very least localized optimism.

For me, this means thinking that I can do tasks in 30 minutes when they really take an evening, the database will build on the first try, and all sorts of wonderful things like that. While this can be really useful at times (namely when starting or keeping on going), it can also make things un-necessarily difficult, by setting release dates too early and other fun things like that.

It still looks like I'll be able to hit December 11nth, just 30 minutes to fix this one last bug, rebuild the DB, another half hour to put together a new front end, and few other "minor" things ..... :)

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