A big benefit of finishing projects is that finishing them often tells you with clarity what you should _really_ have been working on. But you can't get to that insight without finishing. Call it the sunk cost paradox
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Replying to @michael_nielsen
What accounts for this clarity being derivable only by “finishing” projects (versus, say, keeping one’s attention attuned to input about what one should be working on, and then doing that instead?)
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The tweet was mostly a joke, albeit one with some truth. That said, finishing projects pushes you to higher and higher standards, which tends to result in different kinds of insights. Ditto actual public release.
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(Finishing a big project. And hankering to do something else, which the current project revealed I really _should_ be working on. But the more I work on the current project the more clearly I can see the second...)
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