In Praise of the Half-Finished Project ✦ Spark
Somewhere on your hard drive, there’s a folder. Maybe it’s called projects, maybe ideas, maybe just stuff. Inside it: a half-written novel. A game prototype that loads to a blue screen. A budgeting app with one endpoint and no frontend. An Arduino thing that blinks. You haven’t opened it in months. Maybe years. And every time you remember it exists, you feel a small pang of guilt. I should finish that. I should finish something. ...