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I have done a ton of successful side projects, one of them even turned into a great and growing business for me. As a former musician the concept of jamming se
by ThomPete 9y ago
I have done a ton of successful side projects, one of them even turned into a great and growing business for me.
As a former musician the concept of jamming seemed like a great way to think about side projects.
In other words in my experience the best you can do is not even think about your side projects as projects (as the require process) but rather as jam-sessions.
Hopefully you have hundreds of little ideas to explore not just one (if you have that one big idea you should probably turn it into a real business, quick your job and maybe get funding)
The worst thing you can do is to worry about process (buy domain name, spend time on logo etc)
- jmiserez 9y agoVery insightful. Jam session also sounds better, less like work and more like fun. Easier to justify (to yourself and to others) if it doesn’t go anywhere, and less pressure.
- ThomPete 9y agoYes Side projects should normally be measured by you don't want to go to bed because you want to do just one more thing rather than you can't go to bed because you need to finish some thing. It should be purely driven by desire.
- moretai 9y agoJeez, I wish I could verbalize things like this because they are so insightful. Thanks for that. It makes sense, but I'd never think to phrase it like that, and hence it doesn't seem apparent that's what I want in my side projects. But the abstract gut feeling is essentially that.
- fazkan 9y agoThis sir, is the ultimate rule for following up side projects. I think this even applies to life in general ( Only in life's case its more like jazz music, you are improvising all the time, enjoying the process)