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Yeah, external bugs suck, but usually there's workarounds.

> Is this because you draw attention to an unfinished project, get distracted by feature requests or praise, or something else?

If you get a bad reaction, you'll be demotivated. If you get a good reaction, you'll feel satisfied and not have the drive to keep working. Either that, or you'll devote more and more time to posting on social media, getting less work done in the process.

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> If you get a bad reaction, you'll be demotivated. If you get a good reaction, you'll feel satisfied and not have the drive to keep working.

This is so important, and not only for sw dev but anything.

Anyone who is struggling with completing personal projects, try starting the next one with the explicit goal to not speak about it - with anyone - until it's either complete, or very near. It may be hard to do at first but ultimately worth it.

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