Mindset · 2026-08-12

The dread is about the room, not the task

Opening GitHub feels like being marched into the place engineers do their dreadful things — a dentist's chair for non-coders. But walk in and the task inside is almost always smaller than the fear standing at the door: make the account, connect it, follow the steps.

Walk into the room you've been avoiding. The task is smaller than the door made it look.