Inconsistency

I have this horrible habit. I get interested in something, then two weeks later it’s awful.

I spent some time with Codex last night, as is my wont; I like to spend time idly wasting tokens getting AI agents to redesign my business site and try and make it less crappy than it was before. But for some reason, I just can’t stick with a design that I like. I turn the thing over and over and over, look at it after rest, love it one day, hate it the next, and never seem to stay consistent.

This is a recurring theme with absolutely everything I do, and to say it’s massively annoying would be the understatement of the century. Nothing is consistent. That work tool I built over a month ago? Well, it’s time to do the work now, buddy! Time to use the app you built to make life easier for yourself!

What do you mean, you don’t like it anymore? You have work to do. This app means it’s easier to manage. Hell, you could even spin up a personal copy to use on your side work - that would help, surely? (to be honest, I only just thought of that. Kinda sucks to realise that I built a tool to help me work more effectively, then don’t use it for about 25% of my work).

Personal site? This one? I’m not sure about the design any more. Perhaps I shoul… NO.

But the business site has more at stake. It’s supposed to represent the professional side of me, the part that helps me get more work, but I cannot make the design stick. I think it’s probably something to do with, oh, you know, the whole ‘putting myself out there and everything has to be perfect’ approach that also runs my life. ‘Good enough’ is rarely Good Enough, apparently.

You’ll find me writing about this a lot, as this is a consistent theme with everything I do - at home as well as at work. At home, traditional DIY jobs tend to get done by the simple principle of “I’m exhausted, that’s good enough, that’ll do”. Of course, a DIY job has a different outcome to something that lives on the web, as the web thing can always be changed, and is easily considered never good enough.

As with most of the other posts, the answer lies in the text I type and the thinking I do while I’m typing. I started the business page with ’this is Good Enough’ and the principle still applies - The wording is way more important than the presentation, and I haven’t reviewed that yet.

So no more changes on design until I’ve nailed the approach and the wording. Then I’ll allow myself to polish the final presentation to match my approach. The limiting factor here is that I had AI generate a ‘Good Enough’ site from a bunch of conversations and content that hasn’t been entirely nailed down; better to get the foundations solid before thinking about painting the walls, eh?