[Linusvq]

You are procrastinating. Your psychology is preventing you somehow from doing the work, because you have some inherent fear that is preventing you from getting started.

I am guilty of this too - I think we all are. It’s far easier to focus on productivity tools/processes because it feels productive, thus giving you feedback without actually doing the harder job of the actual work, and thus perhaps realizing your underlying fear of failure or fear of being judged / etc.

[locallost]

I agree with this. Some other reasons could be:

1) you are afraid you will fail

2) you actually don't want to do that project. This could be a lot of different reasons: e.g. you get excited about ideas, but quickly lose interest etc.

They say everybody essentially writes about themselves, in this case very true.

[grvdrm]

That last line is so true - sounds like a coping mechanism. Reminded me of this Substack post:

https://theteardown.substack.com/p/notes-about-notes

Edit: coping

[itsmemattchung]

> They say everybody essentially writes about themselves, in this case very true.

Can you elaborate on this? Curious what you mean about how (in this instance) the OP is writing about themselves?