You might find it helpful to go through books written by therapists such as The Perfectionism Workbook and The CBT Workbook for Perfectionism to understand the causes of perfectionism and the beliefs and fears behind it.
This book isn't specifically about OCD but Overcoming Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts could be helpful as well. It talks about how to observe and accept thoughts, even if they're unwanted, repetitive or disturbing, instead of trying to suppress or fight against them.
I'm someone who was affected by Mixpanel's decision to end their messaging product.
I think having the ability to message users was a huge selling point for Mixpanel. It meant that you could track user events and details with Mixpanel and use them to send behavior triggered emails, push notifications and SMS on the same platform.
From what I see, it seems the issue was, they never realized or marketed how great it was having user analytics and messaging on the same platform. Their messaging product didn't have to be the best feature wise, it solved a lot of pain points.
No need to send your user events to a separate messaging platform, you could easily track downstream actions users took after receiving or opening a message you sent with Mixpanel to get more accurate conversion data as utms can be unreliable, it had competitive pricing (multichannel messaging platforms for large audiences are very costly).
Something that I realized is, negative thoughts and emotions are normal and part of life. It's the counterproductive or hurtful behaviors we may engage in, as a reaction to the negative thoughts or emotions, that we can try to avoid.
Feeling bad about having negative thoughts or emotions and being afraid to express them, only makes it more likely we'll engage in counterproductive coping behaviors.
> In contrast, most people who get in, finish college.
> In person education beats online education hollow.
This isn't really true.
"According to the National Center for Education Statistics, just 41% of first-time full-time college students earn a bachelor’s degree in four years, and only 59% earn a bachelor’s in six years."
This book isn't specifically about OCD but Overcoming Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts could be helpful as well. It talks about how to observe and accept thoughts, even if they're unwanted, repetitive or disturbing, instead of trying to suppress or fight against them.