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    Here's What's Preventing You From Finishing Projects

    Zack Freedman

    3 HN recommenders · recommended in 3 months, 2021–2023

    YouTube

    11:28 · 147K views · Jan 9, 2021

    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.

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    3 comments from Hacker News

    1. @carbJun 2023· 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.

      Strongly recommendsView on HN
    2. @jldSep 2021· 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

      RecommendsView on HN
    3. @rhizomeApr 2022· 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

      RecommendsView on HN