The thing about side projects is that you're free to go wherever you want, no one is watching over your shoulder any more. It's a damned shame when they get los

The thing about side projects is that you're free to go wherever you want, no one is watching over your shoulder any more. It's a damned shame when they get lost in tar pits trying to live up to someone else's standards. Side projects should be about passion, about solving interesting problems; and cutting corners is the fastest way to get there. And in the end, knowing which corners to cut and when is what separates the pros from the not yets, that's where 10x comes from.