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Here's What's Preventing You From Finishing Projects

Zack FreedmanRecommended by 3 HN commenters across 3 months, 2021–2023
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Zack Freedman gives advice on why makers fail to finish projects, including scrapping bad ideas, showing work publicly and writing a plan that keeps projects fun. It is aimed at hardware DIY but generalizes.

HN finds the project-scoping rubric useful for programmers too and recommends it on finishing side projects.

Productivity & self-improvement3D printing, CNC & maker projects#procrastination#projectscoping#diy#motivation

3 comments from Hacker News

@carb2023-06 · in “Finish Your Projects”

I love this article and the premise. Further similar reading/watching in some of my favorite Zack Freedman videos! - "Here's What's Preventing You From Finishing Projects": ▶ this video - "How to Finish Your Weekend Projects in One Weekend": link "Finishing" more projects (even if that means changing the scope and announcing it "finished") has been amazing for my internal willingness to start new projects or tell friends about them. I have much less anxiety that I'll leave another half-finished project sitting around with lost motivation.

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@rhizome2022-04 · in “The Joy of Small Projects”

I came across this video a while back and though I'm not a wearables hardware guy, the rubric he uses is sound for programmer-y stuff too. ▶ this video

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@jld2021-09 · in “A Tour of Grant Imahara’s Shop [video]”

I found this video by Zach Freedman about finishing projects to be enlightening, especially the idea that "deciding to not finish a project" is a way to finish a project. ▶ this video

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