Zack Freedman will host the Hack Chat on Wednesday, February 10 at noon Pacific.
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Try as we might, some of us are much better at starting projects than finishing them. Our benches -- or all too often, our notebooks -- are graveyards of good attempts, littered with the scraps of ideas that really sounded good at the time and clouded by a miasma of good intentions and protestations that "This time, it'll be different." Spoiler alert: no, it won't.
Trying to pin the cause of this painfully common problem on something specific is probably a fool's errand, especially when given the fact that some people mysteriously don't suffer from it, it would appear brain chemistry plays a role. Maybe some people just really like the dopamine hit of starting something new, which gives them the rush of excitement while the idea is still fresh, only to have it wane rapidly as the project enters the churn.
Whatever it is, if you suffer from it, chances are good you've looked for a way out at least once. If so, you'll want to hop into this Hack Chat, where "very serious hacker" Zack Freedman, proprietor of the Voidstar Labs channel on YouTube, will share his thoughts on project follow-through. We've enjoyed Zack's projects for a while now, and covered a few, from his in-your-face (on-your-wrist?) smartwatch to his video editing keypad. He gets stuff done, perhaps in part due to his workshop organization, but however he does it, we're eager to hear about it. Join us as we discuss the art of follow-through and getting stuff done
