You're an artist. Pick a medium. When you start a new project, instead of viewing it as "I need to do X", instead view it as, "I need to do X using Y." You're

You're an artist. Pick a medium. When you start a new project, instead of viewing it as "I need to do X", instead view it as, "I need to do X using Y." You're not trying to write the best web app ever, but rather you're trying to write the best web app using Coffee Script and React. All mediums have disadvantages and restrictions. Watercolor may lot look as realistic as oil paint, but the watercolor painter isn't concerned with that. The watercolor painter is concerned with watercolor and watercolor alone. I say this because some of the most fun I've had programming was writing assembly for 8-bit retro computers. In terms of productivity, choosing a shitty CPU from 1980 as a target is not productive whatsoever. But that's not the point. I wasn't trying to achieve the global optimum of success. I was trying to achieve success given a list of restrictions set at the beginning. And that was a more attainable, healthy goal. So pick a choice. Pick whatever you think would be an interesting challenge. And stick with it. It's your medium now.