Hi, I’m Xianmin, your Remote IT Concierge, and this is my startup weekly journal.

This Week’s Reflections

This week I participated in an open-source project, Jaaz, a locally runnable AI art creation tool. This project was initiated by 11cafe. The team members are all very capable, and just one week after release, it has gained 300+ stars on GitHub. I feel honored to participate in the early development.

Jaaz storyboards creation screenshot

Most open-source projects are driven by passion, and without financial support, they are hard to sustain. For example, I also have my own open-source projects, but I can only say they solve personal needs and then share with others. Due to livelihood concerns, I can’t invest more energy and time - I can only maintain them occasionally when I’m free. With code being completely open-source, it’s easy for some small business owners to rename it, rebrand it, and sell it as their own product. So I’m particularly curious about how Jaaz can achieve commercial success going forward.

Information Overload Leading to Decision Paralysis

My weekly journal was interrupted for 2 weeks. Being too busy was one reason. From a freelancing perspective, every minute is money, and as long as you want to work, there’s really too much to handle. My writing content hit a bottleneck - I didn’t know what to write. I’ve said the same things repeatedly, and even I find it boring.

Another main reason, which I personally analyze as: information overload leading to decision paralysis.

Throughout May, besides working for clients, I was also pondering questions like “what content to write, how to adjust direction, what kind of product to build.” The previous weekly journal format seemed to me to have fallen into low-quality repetition. I don’t enjoy writing such content, and I imagine readers wouldn’t enjoy reading it either. So I decided to see what others were writing, then got overwhelmed by the information flood and became even more unsure what to write. I simply stopped updating, and I still haven’t found the right feeling.

DeepSeek: Information overload → exceeds individual cognitive processing capacity → leads to key information being buried, priority confusion, difficulty evaluating options, increased emotional pressure, blurred decision criteria → brain becomes overwhelmed → unable to effectively integrate information to form clear judgment and choices → ultimately manifests as hesitation, procrastination, decision avoidance (i.e., decision paralysis).