THE VIDEO SHELF · finishing projects
Here's What's Preventing You From Finishing Projects
Zack Freedman gives advice on why makers fail to finish projects, including scrapping bad ideas, showing work publicly and writing a plan that keeps projects fun. It is aimed at hardware DIY but generalizes.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN finds the project-scoping rubric useful for programmers too and recommends it on finishing side projects.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Zack Freedman
- Topic
- finishing projects
- Format
- explainer
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 3
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2021–2023
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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I love this article and the premise. Further similar reading/watching in some of my favorite Zack Freedman videos! - "Here's What's Preventing You From Finishing Projects": [VIDEO] - "How to Finish Your Weekend Projects in One Weekend": [LINK] "Finishing" more projects (even if that means …
carb on Hacker News · 2023-06
In Finish Your ProjectsI found this video by Zach Freedman about finishing projects to be enlightening, especially the idea that "deciding to not finish a project" is a way to finish a project. [VIDEO]
jld on Hacker News · 2021-09
In A Tour of Grant Imahara’s Shop [video]I came across this video a while back and though I'm not a wearables hardware guy, the rubric he uses is sound for programmer-y stuff too. [VIDEO]
rhizome on Hacker News · 2022-04
In The Joy of Small Projects
Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.