What are you genuinely bad at?

Moderation.

I'm an all-or-nothing person, and I know it. When I care about something, I throw everything at it. When I built Tiny Steps, 99,000 lines of code, 515 commits in 89 days. When I built Tiny Thoughts, 877 commits in 71 days. I don't do things halfway.

The problem is the flip side. If I can't do something at the level I want, my instinct is to not do it at all. For a long time, I didn't go to the gym because I couldn't commit to a six-day program, so instead of going twice a week, I went zero times. My body literally knew this, my muscles were shrinking, my skin was getting worse, and I still couldn't convince myself that two days was worth doing because it wasn't six.

I've named this pattern. I understand the mechanism. And I'm getting better at it. I now deliberately choose "good enough" in areas that aren't my primary focus so that the primary focus doesn't consume everything else. But the tendency is in my wiring. I manage it. I don't pretend it's gone.