overengineering comes from not having a deadline This really resonates: at the height of the phase I spent about 2 years once, half-time developing something n

overengineering comes from not having a deadline This really resonates: at the height of the phase I spent about 2 years once, half-time developing something new for which there was essentally no deadline. I went totally berserk doing insane stuff like implementing design patterns using templated 'reusable' classes in C++ so whenever something even remotely looked like a pattern I had a class for, I would use that class. Which then needed small fixes of course. And extra logging. Pluggabble. Etc, you get the point :) In the end everything was dropped because I found a much better, much simpler, existing way to do everything though. But didn't happen to me again afterwards, or at least not to that extent: it was really like having had a severe electric shock; once, but never again, before even coming close to any hot wire my brain is already subconsciously screaming to get away from the thing a.s.a.p.