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Why does finishing a mediocre project feel more valuable than abandoning a great one ?
Been thinking about this a lot lately. Every time I start something that feels interesting, I hit a wall around week two or three and the project just dies. I have a graveyard of halfbuilt things that were genuinely cool concepts but never got past the messy middle part.
What I keep noticing is that the one or two things I actually forced myself to finish, even when they were ugly and the code was embarrassing, stuck with me way longer than anything I abandoned. Not because the finished product was good. It wasn't. But something about pushing through the part where you hate it seems to wire things in differently.
The abandoned projects feel like I learned more in the moment because they were ambitious. But six months later I can barely remember what I built or why it broke.
Wondering if this is a widely shared experience or if some people genuinely learn better by hopping between projects and absorbing concepts sideways. Because the advice to just finish something small gets repeated constantly and I am starting to think it is not just motivational fluff, there might be something real behind it. What actually clicked for you when you finally shipped something, even if it was rough.
#programming #technology #dev
Been thinking about this a lot lately. Every time I start something that feels interesting, I hit a wall around week two or three and the project just dies. I have a graveyard of halfbuilt things that were genuinely cool concepts but never got past the messy middle part.
What I keep noticing is that the one or two things I actually forced myself to finish, even when they were ugly and the code was embarrassing, stuck with me way longer than anything I abandoned. Not because the finished product was good. It wasn't. But something about pushing through the part where you hate it seems to wire things in differently.
The abandoned projects feel like I learned more in the moment because they were ambitious. But six months later I can barely remember what I built or why it broke.
Wondering if this is a widely shared experience or if some people genuinely learn better by hopping between projects and absorbing concepts sideways. Because the advice to just finish something small gets repeated constantly and I am starting to think it is not just motivational fluff, there might be something real behind it. What actually clicked for you when you finally shipped something, even if it was rough.
#programming #technology #dev
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