Here's What's Preventing You From Finishing Projects

Here's What's Preventing You From Finishing Projects on HackerTube: recommended by 3 Hacker News commenters across 3 separate months, 2021–2023.

Zack Freedman

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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.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN finds the project-scoping rubric useful for programmers too and recommends it on finishing side projects.

people recommended it: 3
separate months: 3
strong recommendations: 1
discussed on HN: 2021–2023

“the rubric he uses is sound for programmer-y stuff too”
— rhizome, Apr 2022, in “The Joy of Small Projects”

What HN commenters said

3 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.

carbJun 2023Strongly recommends

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.

in “Finish Your Projects” · View on HN

rhizomeApr 2022Recommends

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

in “The Joy of Small Projects” · View on HN

jldSep 2021Recommends

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

in “A Tour of Grant Imahara’s Shop [video]” · View on HN

Topics & tags

Productivity & self-improvement 3D printing, CNC & maker projectsprocrastinationproject scopingdiymotivationmaker