Motivation Is a Bitch: Why We Hustle for Others but Ghost Our Own Dreams

I was once given a week to build a machine learning model to predict solar power as part of a job application for a meteorological data scientist role. And guess what? I worked on this task for most of that week, writing Quarto notebooks (a more fancy way to write Jupyter notebooks) and documenting all the steps in a githhub repo like it owed me money. No distractions, no excuses. But then, when…