Yeah there’s some nuance to the zero days thing. If it’s a day I’ve already set aside that’s fine, but I’ve found myself unable to decide in the moment “not feeling it today, this will be a zero day”, and be okay with that emotionally. Unless I’ve shipped a massive feature recently or something, then it’s okay. Motivation is a mess, is what I’m getting at :)
Haha I share in your frustration with the crickets launch, anything I post here that I actually care about people seeing, gets shuttled off to the shadow realm, then stuff like this that’s just musing tends to hit the front page.
For what it’s worth, I feel the exact same way about zero days. Intellectually I know I deserve them, but something inside me just refuses to stop thinking “I need to work now” until I’ve had some kind of “minimum viable productivity” to show.
But interestingly as soon as I do, I can absolutely disconnect.
Yeah, I know that feeling well. The day after completing a massive thing, I'm super happy to have a zero day, and just enjoy the feeling of having accomplished something big. Other days, not so much.
Haha I share in your frustration with the crickets launch, anything I post here that I actually care about people seeing, gets shuttled off to the shadow realm, then stuff like this that’s just musing tends to hit the front page.