Also called Developer Things · Cracking Knuckles and Stretching · Preparing for a Small Task
Cracked knuckles, a neck stretch, and a full warm-up make the next task look momentous. Use the blank space to reveal how little effort the job actually needs.
The three photographs build up the preparation. The empty fourth space is where you reveal the activity that supposedly requires all this effort.
It works for overconfidence, procrastination, or taking a tiny task very seriously. The more ordinary the final activity, the bigger the contrast with the warm-up.
Use the white strip above the photos for a short setup. Put the activity in the blank lower-right square, where a fourth photograph would normally go.
Keep the photographs clear so the sequence reads as preparation. You can also insert an image into the empty square if the final action is easier to show.
Original captions to try with this template.
The warm-up promises a major coding session, then reveals a tiny correction.
All the apparent effort goes into a two-word email.
The preparation looks competitive, but the actual task is just logging in.
