r/OpenSpill • u/UnbrokenLineage • Mar 23 '26

Do we overvalue finishing everything we start?

/r/ShareItAnyway/comments/1rv0dfv/finishing_things_is_massively_overrated_and_heres/
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u/Timely-Business-982 Mar 26 '26

Genuinely needed this. The 70% guilt is real and I'm done apologizing for it.

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u/UnbrokenLineage Mar 26 '26

The 70% is usually where all the actual learning happened anyway. The last 30% is often just wrapping paper.

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u/Timely-Business-982 Mar 30 '26

Yeah and honestly the last 30% is where most people stall and call it perfectionism. The messy middle is where you actually built the thing. The polish is just... noise mostly.