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Finish Your Projects


Starting a project can be full of excitement, hope, and blissful productivity. Finishing that last ten percent, however, can feel like too much. Here’s how to get past that and actually finish.

Finish your projects for long enough, and you'll come to know a satisfaction that vanishingly few enjoy: a body of completed work spanning years or decades. It's all the stuff you don't really want to do, like writing documentation, setting up CI, properly handling user input, or figuring out how to correctly bundle the package for release. And once you’ve found a personal strategy to push through the painful grind, there remains a deeper and wholly distinct impediment to finishing our projects: fear.

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