It’s amazing how often I find myself solving the wrong problem. As you may see from my last post, over the last few days, I’ve been trying to wrestle trust metric calculations onto App Engine. However it turns out that for one reason after another that it just isn’t practical (the solution I outlined in the post, Tav points out, is trivially game-able).

So the penny drops and it’s back to the drawing board. All the time I’ve invested figuring out which model entities can go in which entity group and how we can maitnain db consistency and so on is simply a waste.

In the same conversation, both Tav and I were wrestling with the same conundrum on a more generic level. If we can’t calculate real metrics should we be creating the architecture to be able to do so? Or should we just work within the restrictions? What should we be trying to achieve?

Self starting productivity is a constant battle to stay in the narrative and solve the right problems. When do you pivot and when do you stay the course?

Some days I wish I knew.