The Boneyard Of Unfinished Projects.
Overgrown, Unloved and Populated By Shame.
We've all been there. Haven't we?
I read a fine article about ne...
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great post! I love how both on James Greig and your, that the links to show projects, led to dead pages. It's a great example of how we mean to have concrete creations of our ideas, but they seems to always slip through the cracks.
I came over from your comment on my post 25 years of coding, and I'm just beginning. Thank you for taking the time to read mine as well and leaving insightful comment. I would reply to is, but unfortunately the comment replies are broken :/. I've reported it. Thanks again, I look forward to your future post.
How embarrassing. Wordpress let me see the Projects page as if it was live when I tested the link even though it was still in draft. "Keep Learning" is my own self-advice for this weekend... :-D
Oh my bad. I thought it was a on going joke, you meant to do.
Now I wish it was!
The processs of being engaged with work and taking satisfaction in the activity itself is worth way more in the long run than the project outcome itself. Outcomes are rarely exactly what you set out to achieve, so aiming for maximum flexibility and enjoyment makes sense. Waste is inevitable so there is no point in frustration.
Ironically though by taking this view, exercising patience and chipping away at it, you’ll end up getting a heap of things done in the long run!
Can take a long time to learn that lesson Daragh but you're spot on. In the immortal words of Aerosmith "Life's a journey, not a destination" and the "failures" I talked about all built skills and knowledge to help with the big wins. Waste is indeed inevitable but no experience is ever really wasted.
“No experience is never really wasted” - bingo