How to never complete anything
I can&#x27;t imagine ever shipping a side project. That&#x27;s not why I build them. If I ever got to the point in my life where I do want my own company, a side project is not the way I want to go about it. Companies take a lot of work, that work has to be understood, then delegated and shared.<p>The technology aspect is really only 10% of it. Sure, it&#x27;s the essential 0-to-1 kicker that gets you going, but once that&#x27;s done you still have to find product-market fit. That quickly assumes second-job status and can wreck your personal life. I&#x27;ve seen it happen.<p>A side project means you&#x27;re taking all that on yourself without any help or real guidance. Not having that help means that when you finally do ship your side project, it&#x27;s probably not going to achieve the kind of rapid growth you need to make scaling up possible.<p>And you really need rapid growth in order for working on a startup of your own creation to beat out having a reasonably-decent job. And if you don&#x27;t have a reasonably-decent job, it&#x27;s way easier to switch jobs &#x2F; industries than it is to build out your own company.<p>What I want out of a side project is the kind of deliberate practice that is often lacking in my real job. Also to chase down random mind hares that seize my interest.