Works for me all the time. That's how I learned parametric/generative 3D design, circuit board design, and embedded rust programming simultaneously. Ended up making this:

https://youtu.be/iv6Rh8UNWlI?si=0Qv9AU8Hxbu_6Red

...but it's just the latest in a long line of "ambitious projects that you currently don't have the skills to complete." Some worked out, some didn't. I learned a shitton every time though (which is good because I'm a terrible traditional student 😁)

[–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 12 points 11 months ago

I read paramedic and was worried

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Your adhd allows a "learn by doing" mode?

Mine blocks me by starting & outlining the 'ambitious project' just for the very outlining process to birth a myriad of non-projects to kinda "learn by doing" small aspects of the main project bcs the main (first of it's kind for me) protect cannot possible be imperfect ... ofc whilst knowing perfectly how shitty it will inevitably be and that that is fine since the goal is to have it working & inevitably learn from it.

So I just learn without ever starting the actual project.

You can pretend much more easily that your project "isn't unfinished"* if it has the status of "not yet stated" ... Its not technically true, just easier to pretend.

And a project never started can live in and continuously clog your mind for even longer than a an already started one that at least somewhat satisfied your curiosity.

[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 11 months ago

One of the things that I went over with my therapist is getting out of analysis paralysis. Sometimes, just picking something from the high-level outline and going for it will help.

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I guess it depends on you. I'm not sure if it's ADHD thing or not, but I just love researching random things (and forget them next day) and I guess that's what makes me decent also at what I do for living.

Someone asks a weird question in our friends WhatsApp group, and I end up investigating it for 2 hours and spamming the chat with everything I find - often annoying the people in that very chat =D

And that transfers well into starting a project I have initially no fucking clue about

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago

Yeah, lol, thats me too, also helps me at work (well, not help "me" per se, but the quality of my work is much better).

I love having approximate knowledge of many things.

Its about the best thing the modern information age has to offer to a pleb like me. A few hundred years ago if I wanted to research a random topic I would have had to be very lucky, prob royalty.

[–] 0laura@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 8 months ago

yooo I also made my own keyboard, tho I used ergogen and ZMK so it's not nearly as ambitious as your project