finishing is hard
Why is finishing so hard? Because you're out of dopamine, of course.
Discovery and curiosity give me energy. Once you're 100% solved, it is difficult to motivate hours 3 and 4 on a task.
That's one reason small tasks are better than large ones.
All progress is incremental! Might as well do it in smalle spurts. Sprints, you might say? Then why are Sprints so long?
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When capture gets as easy as it should be (and remember, Capture should be easy ), you quickly have too many things captured.
Then, remember this: Delete things!
If you're capturing all the time, trust your delete-it gut. If it's important, it'll come back. The focus that comes from a reduced spread of todos will probably get you back to the item in question faster.
And don't forget that ideas are cheap, finishing is hard (and more important), and we want Less scope creep and more iterations.
See also, finishing is hard.
Finishing is the counter to the 'ideas guy' problem. Ideas are Cheap!
Finishing is when an idea's value is transformed from inspirational value to actual, sharable value.
That's not to say sharing ideas isn't possible - it's just that that is all you're doing - sharing ideas. Sharing something finished is where you get feedback, where you inspire more ideas.
The last 20% is 80% of the effort! How many projects have you done 80% of, that just need that focused, couple-hour push?
Maybe I should start planning just the last 20% of projects.