Intention

• My intention is to challenge myself to deliver consistently and within an artificial deadline I set for myself.
• By fixing the time I want to spend on each idea, I would struggle if I don’t prioritize and execute properly. Doing this would improve those skills for me.
• In Atomic Habits, James Clear calls out that Perfectionism won’t help achieve goals—Repetitions do. He illustrates this through a short story where a group of students tasked with producing as many photos as possible also produced the best photos, whereas the group tasked with producing a single photo to the best of their ability produced mediocre photos¹. So, my intention is to put the reps in.

The Specifics

How do I want to go about it? I have decided on 3 days per project. This is not from extensive research, but rather from a guesstimate on how many hours per day I can realistically spend on this and how many hours I need to allocate per project. I arrived at 3 hours per day, and I would spend 10-12 hours of focused work on the project—from idea to release. I also want to show what I do. So, the general idea is to open source them, probably on Github, although there can be some exceptions. I also want to write about the whole experience and publish it. I also set a larger time limit of 30 days for this challenge to give myself a sense of closed scope. So, in essence: