Tag: Slumps
Articles tagged "Slumps".
When You're Slumping, Your Self-Assessment Loses Its Ground Twice Over
2026-07-20 18:00:00 · Learning
When you're in a slump, you can't recall what you actually did — or what you'd meant to do. Both the numerator and the denominator vanish, and all that's left is the feeling that you failed. When I actually counted the records, I'd published nine articles and about 52,000 characters in the month from June 22. And yet the open-source release I'd publicly promised was genuinely undelivered. Here are eight steps for re-running your self-assessment on records instead of memory, plus the things I've forbidden myself.
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