abstractapplic's Shortform

I should probably get into the habit of splitting my comments up. I keep making multiple assertions in a single response, which means when people add (dis)agreement votes I have no idea which part(s) they're (dis)agreeing with.

I used to implicitly believe that when I have a new idea for a creative(/creative-adjacent) project, all else being equal, I should add it to the end of my to-do list (FIFO). I now explicitly believe the opposite: that the fresher an idea is, the sooner I should get started making it a reality (LIFO). This way:

• I get to use the burst of inspired-by-a-new-idea energy on the project in question.
• I spend more time working on projects conceived by a me with whom I have a lot in common.

The downsides are:

• Some old ideas will end up near the bottom of the pile until I die or the Singularity happens. (But concepts are cheaper than execution, and time is finite.)
• I get less time to polish ideas in my head before committing pen to paper. (But maybe that's good?)

Thoughts on this would be appreciated.