When I was executing on a side project, I found myself easily being trapped in certain thinking patterns, which "sucks" lots of my energy and time without producing values.

Some of the actions I noticed include:

• Thinking & searching a domain in namecheap.com
• Futile meta thinking
  • Meta thinking on using the tool that I used recently: OpenAI, Emacs, etc.
  • I kept thinking about automating things, without realizing that, most of the values this provides are not about automation, but the actual stuffs that help people. I just don't know how to think it through. (It's likely I read too much life hacker articles
  • Kept coming back to some shallow understanding of indie hacker's stories (Credits: Courtland Allen), and try to come up with a theory
  • Kept thinking if I could do some past projects differently, and what I can learn from them
• Fantasy
  • Kept imagining if I could go back in time, with all the knowledge I have now, how would I live my life? It's a fascinating thinking experiment, and yields little insights to the present.

In hindsight, these activities bring little values to me, but I kept getting trapped into them without realizing.

I define it as self bikeshedding as it ignores the most important works for completing side projects.

Deep down, I know there is a list of things I need to do. Oh then we get to priorities.

Priorities.

That's the boring part. The word makes life look like a toil.