Focus is important. Without focus you’ll never finish that project. But there are two kinds of focus. Professional focus (the focus you have at work) and private focus (the one you use on hobby projects). I don’t have enough professional focus and I almost completely lack private focus. I love thinking about cool new programs to make. I start making them a lot, but I never finish them because I get distracted or tired of the project. I hate that, but it’s not something I can fix easily. It’s a hobby project, so I work on it for as long as it’s fun. When I have ato work on it when it’s no longer fun it becomes work. That’s what I get paid for to do, not something I do in my spare time. So I stop working on the project.
The last few weeks I commited myself (again) to two projects: dBlog, a weblog engine written by a colleague/friend of mine and FeedME, a win32 RSS feed reader. But because I spend a lot of my spare time at my girlfriends house, I hardly take the time to work on any of those two projects. When I do spend time in my own home, I rather play some UT2004 or other game then start ‘working’.
This isn’t a rant, it’s just a confession 