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Experience shows that some adjustments can prevent problems later on: | Experience shows that some adjustments can prevent problems later on: | ||
* Make sure to tell people about your plans. Otherwise there's a good chance you'll get distracted by silly misunderstandings and oversights, and lots of redundant labour. Strictly speaking you should probably also inform yourself about what other initiatives came before yours, and build on them. | * Make sure to tell people about your plans. Otherwise there's a good chance you'll get distracted by silly misunderstandings and oversights, and lots of redundant labour. Strictly speaking you should probably also inform yourself about what other initiatives came before yours, and build on them. | ||
* Don't be too protective of your work and turn yourself into a bottleneck; instead allow others to help you whenever you are stuck. Find the local specialists. When coordinating group work: [ | * Don't be too protective of your work and turn yourself into a bottleneck; instead allow others to help you whenever you are stuck. Find the local specialists. When coordinating group work: [https://wiki-archive.emfcamp.org/2012/articles/m/a/r/User:Martind/Induction.html#Making_Important_Decisions Involve your community in larger decisions]. | ||
* And most importantly: make a habit of handing over your work to others once you realise you don't have the time/patience/resources any more to support it. Don't just drop it and run away. | * And most importantly: make a habit of handing over your work to others once you realise you don't have the time/patience/resources any more to support it. Don't just drop it and run away. | ||
These suggestions reflect the nature of infrastructure work: others may be relying on you to actually finish. However taken together these suggestions may make your spare-time experiment feel like tedious "work": depending on your personality type and mood you may feel like the overhead is tar-sanding your project, and it becomes hard to stay motivated. So in the interest of progress it is sometimes best to keep quiet; apply your best judgment whether this applies to you, and avoid creating needless bottlenecks for others while you play. | These suggestions reflect the nature of infrastructure work: others may be relying on you to actually finish. However taken together these suggestions may make your spare-time experiment feel like tedious "work": depending on your personality type and mood you may feel like the overhead is tar-sanding your project, and it becomes hard to stay motivated. So in the interest of progress it is sometimes best to keep quiet; apply your best judgment whether this applies to you, and avoid creating needless bottlenecks for others while you play. | ||
=== Informal Authorities === | === Informal Authorities === | ||
