It's interesting -- I wholeheartedly agree with the phenomenon, but I'd frame it completely differently. There's a scary cliff there, but I feel like launching

It's interesting -- I wholeheartedly agree with the phenomenon, but I'd frame it completely differently. There's a scary cliff there, but I feel like launching is when a project first becomes real. It's the actual start. It's when you're judged. It's usually when you learn that your assumptions were completely wrong. It means you have to start dealing with actual problems, not imagined problems. That's usually less fun, but I think it is more exciting (in large part because it's the dive into the unknown).