The idea that telling people an idea or plan that you have can release the same dopamine that you would have gotten from just doing it.
I’m particularly interested in this because of the giant backlog of projects I have that keeps growing along with my bookmarks. I want to be public and talk about the things I’m working on, but I don’t want to hack myself into just getting the dopamine hits and never actually acting on my ideas.
A similar worry is that the seed, budding, evergreen pipeline for notes and posts may suffer from the same core conceit. Writing a stub that becomes a seed gives me enough satisfaction that I never graduate it to evergreen. In some cases it may just be that other things are more pressing or top of mind, but I can’t help but worry about that.
Even this note is a seed right now. I suppose we’ll see if I’m able to expand on my thoughts more