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Yeah, finishing personal projects is not impossible. I'm slowly building a set of tools for myself, and the servers I manage, and they're going well.

One of them can be considered finished, the other one is almost done. The first one may get improved, but that's a later exercise.

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Cool that you are seeing your progress!

Improvements are an important aspect. They are simply changes to goals and the scope.

In terms of finishing projects, it is crucial to define them and possibly define milestones in advance.

Yeah, you need to have a clear target and aim while starting. Milestones start to show themselves once you're experienced enough.

While we're at it, experience is also a must. Everybody starts from the bottom, and needs to work their way up, and I found kaizen is a great way to do it.

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