https://diode.zone/videos/watch/ab7d78e5-ee27-4563-99cd-80c9375c2ca2 Episode 0012 of Will's Guide to Programming Languages, Programming, Computation, and What-Have-You. Will Radio, Part II -- Upping the Difficulty anxiety for creating things: videos, books, etc., I've been relatively successful with talks, teaching, mentoring, and Google Hangouts videos because of immediacy and unavoidable deadlines, I've been hopeless at making videos, writing books or technical notes, etc., on my own. Everything must be perfect, so I never finish anything., Closers and the Cult of Done, Space Shuttle simulator and training -- intentional overload, factory mentality / Ed Wood's "My next one will be better!", 1 kiloTube Challenge, turns out 1 kiloTube is way too easy, how do I write a book???, up the difficulty and speed!, 11 finished books, each with a Creative Commons license, submitted to a publisher in 2024, writing books will be recorded and posted on YT!, first book will be on Strategies for Idiosyncratic and Creative Thinking, ======================================== Original video: https://youtu.be/AdexPhDAPwA, Oringally published: 2024-01-30 Wed, 21 Oct 2026 13:22:27 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://diode.zone https://diode.zone/lazy-static/avatars/f8052465-9d60-4b32-92d3-0f4304b24ca6.png https://diode.zone/videos/watch/ab7d78e5-ee27-4563-99cd-80c9375c2ca2 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://diode.zone/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.