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Why We Should Stop Working on Pet Projects

Do you like to get stuff done? Have you started pet projects several times and then never finished them? Have you been working on the same personal project for a couple of years?
Do you plan to start a side project in your free time?

I have a whole cemetery of unfinished projects. Although, it's all OK at my day job; I get stuff done on time there.

This situation is not surprising. A pet project means to be all fun while finishing requires monotonous, dull polishing. However, at some point, I figured out that I want:

  • to see how stuff from my head actually works, and maybe even helps others;
  • to really learn something — by starting over and over I barely scratch the surface;

So, I finally decided to finish at least one of them. However, I had to figure out what kept me from making progress in the first place...

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