<story><title>The best way to get unstuck</title><url>https://ggnotes.com/the-best-way-to-get-unstuck</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sverhagen</author><text>I would add that gold plating, in the software engineering sense, is also a form of being stuck. You may be telling yourself you&amp;#x27;re doing useful work, like making the code prettier, or lifting test coverage up from 98%, all the way to 98.5%. But in reality, you&amp;#x27;re just buying time until taking on the next real new task. Because new tasks are scary, and require extra determination, and thus energy (and remember, you&amp;#x27;re tired!), before you have conquered them to a point of comfort, where the gold plating soon looms again. Rinse. Repeat.</text></comment>
<story><title>The best way to get unstuck</title><url>https://ggnotes.com/the-best-way-to-get-unstuck</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>theideaofcoffee</author><text>I don’t know where I heard it, maybe it’s just a pithy saying, maybe it’s more profound with some history behind it. Regardless, I’ve always had success with: “Begin. The rest is easy.”&lt;p&gt;Which I guess goes along with his point, just do something.</text></comment>