The Compact: It’s on
And so it begins…
COMMITMENT
I, the person writing this right now, do hereby commit to developing at least one application and submitting it to to the App Store within a period of approximately 14 days. Application must be a viable candidate for approval and comprise useful functionality and/or real entertainment value.
PENALTY FOR NON-COMPLIANCE
Should I fail to fulfill the Commitment by UTC 12PM, Monday 28th March, 2011, I hereby promise to donate US$1000 to Ray Comfort’s Living Waters ministry within 24 hours of the deadline passing.
COMPLETION
This contract may not be terminated or extended, and will be morally binding until either the Commitment has been fulfilled or the Penalty has been met. In either case supporting evidence must be made available.
Yes, I really mean it.
Fuck, now that’s a penalty to avoid! Code like the wind!
Bugger!! And I thought I would have occasion to pounce upon you as a sinister midget with assorted tools of pain… $1000 is no penalty :( :(
$1000 to Ray Comfort is a hell of a penalty– The thought fills me with dread.
If I ever try this approach again maybe I will take you up on the pouncing midget option :)
If you succeed, that does not preclude you from donating the money to such a worthy cause! Although you could switch to an alternative such as CMI :-)
Punishing himself for succeeding seems a little perverse, doesn’t it?
Good to know you’re watching, Ross– I’m sure I can count on you to encourage me to follow through should it come to that.
Praying for your mortal soul!
The smarter you are, the harder it is to trick or bully yourself
I don’t know whether to go “Yaaaaaaaaaay!” or “Noooooooooo!”
Please make it a “Yaaaaaaaay!” :)
Hey Mark, i just watched a great 3 hour movie called “A Prophet”, really good Oscar nomination.
Excellent time waster!
but seriously, im willing to help you get the app on the store. You really cant donate to Living Water!
God help us!
Nnnnooooooo!!
Interesting idea, but I would have picked some charity that you actually love (its incentive enough). I’ve been struggling with my #wp7dev as well – staying up late, but often just switching between dozen started projects.
I eventually succeeded publishing 2 apps and then found myself improving existing apps rather than starting new ones. What’s really sad is that even incentive of rewards (money, phones and notebooks) is not enough for me to push through and get app complete – quite the opposite (there was nice RSA animation/speech about incentives and creativity).
If I’d chosen a nice charity then I’m reasonably sure the whole deal would have failed, simply because I would have consoled myself that it would be going to a good cause.
It seems there is no greater motivation for me than avoiding immediate bad consequences. The incentive of money, fulfilment, etc clearly doesn’t work for me at the moment, so this was my last option, and for better or worse I think it worked.