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got to get that juice in My cup bowl full of gumbo Get your boss on board for GitHub Universe! Tickets are 35% off for a limited time. Use our quick email template today. Navigation Menu Sign in Finish your projects DON’T LET FEAR, OR THAT LAST 10%, HOLD YOU BACK. Artwork: Micha Huigen Photo of Aaron FrancisPlanetScale logo Aaron Francis DEVELOPER EDUCATOR, PLANETSCALE The ReadME Project amplifies the voices of the open source community: the maintainers, developers, and teams whose contributions move the world forward every day. The ReadME Project Starting a new project is a rush. The possibilities are infinite. There's no legacy code dragging you down; we're only making good decisions this time! The beginning of any project is always characterized by blissful productivity. There's so much to be done. How could you not get a lot done in a short amount of time? Edge cases don't exist. There are only happy paths. There are no hard decisions, no tradeoffs, no users, and no customers. Just you and an infinite canvas. Sooner or later, the blissful productivity gives way to something that feels much more like... work. More like a grind. But it's probably just this project, right? You've lost interest. The passion is gone. It's not as fun as you thought it would be. All that's left is the "boring" stuff. You have a new idea, though, and you're sure that you'll see this one through! And so the cycle continues, over and over again, until you're left with a graveyard of unfinished projects, wondering how anyone ever finishes anything. What does everyone else know that you don't? Don’t worry, though, you're not alone. In fact, you're probably in the majority! Most people dream of doing great things, but many never start. Of the few that start, even fewer finish. Those few people—the ones that actually finish—know the deep satisfaction of seeing something through to the end. It’s a satisfaction much deeper than the euphoric high of starting. In this Guide, you will learn: How finishing a project is different from solving the problem you set out to solve. What role fear might play in limiting you from reaching your potential. What you stand to gain by seeing a project through to the end. 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. What is it about finishing a project that's so difficult? What makes the last 10% of a project take as much time as the first 90%? Every person and every project is unique, but two broad themes have continually come back to the surface for me: Finishing requires work Finishing requires courage Let's start with work. erg