Impatient with action, patient with results

Introduction

If you look at my computer, you might find 100’s of incomplete projects. I got 89 repositories on github and mind you these are the one’s I uploaded on github. There are multiple just lying around in my Projects folder.

Why do I do this? Why do I always get excited about a project, execute it and then get bored and move on 🚶

I think it comes from a fear inside that maybe I cannot accomplish this wild idea that I just got.

My brain: So you have been coding in C++ for some time now. But can you create a Machine Learning library that is as easy to use as Pytorch?

There was something about this challenge that got me excited. I woke up early, made a strong cup of coffee and got to work.

After grinding for a week, I created a rough draft. You can check it out here : microgradpp

Anyways, I submitted this to CppCon, got accepted as a poster presenter and then won the second prize. Everyone appreciated it. But soon I got bored and moved on.

The solution

I have realized that my brain has learnt this bad habit to always crave for novelty. My brain gets excited with adrenaline on seeing a challenge, and as soon as I solve it, it gets bored. So from now on I have decided to stick to a project even though it feels boring. That’s life.

I feel a lot of people feel and behave like me and might benefit from this experiment.

So lately, I have been buiding an image editing tool VisionFly. Although after building it I realized that I should have started with customer pain points but I just built it to learn stuff not make it a business. So my goal is to stick with it and keep publishing blogs on it’s website to help people. We’ll see where we end up.

See you guys in the next blog 👋🏼