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Ask HN: Is there a name for this behavioral phenomenon?
5 points by eeegnu on Jan 30, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments
I'm working on a project and i'm at a step where there are several options for accomplishing the task, any of them working will do. And because I really don't care which of them I use, I try to find which of them will take the least effort/time to get working. But i've found myself trapped in a cycle: Every time I dig a little deeper into one solution, I find something that looks like it'd be unpleasant to deal with and I switch over to inspecting a different solution (e.g. browsing through a different library.) I've looped a few times now between three reasonable routes, getting a little deeper in each one each time. Does anyone else ever get caught in this kind of cycle?



analysis paralysis


Yep.

Commit and move on. Hindsight is a great teacher. You will do better next time.

But you will also see a next time.


analysis paralysis like the other user said, or choice overload, choice paralysis, obsessive compulsive disorder




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