> So when you are blocked because the side project path is not clear, what do you do? Mostly, I acknowledge to myself that I don't care enough to finish it int

> So when you are blocked because the side project path is not clear, what do you do? Mostly, I acknowledge to myself that I don't care enough to finish it into a "shipped project", and just let it go. For me, most of my side projects are about learning and satisfying my own curiosity. The can have accomplished their entire goal without ever being "finished" in anybody else's eyes. Once I've answered "I wonder if you could do {foo} and get {bah}?", I'll mostly lose interest once I've demonstrated to myself that I can (or can't). Often I'll lose interest because in the middle of doing {foo}, I'll discover some other interesting {baz} that I want to investigate more than I want to achieve {bah}. If you're doing your side projects for other reasons, you'll probably have different motivations. I'm not looking to fill up a portfolio of things to show off to potential employers, or trying to build passive income or bootstrap my own startup. If that what your side projects are for then shipping them actually matters. For me, shipping would be a boring but of extra crap to do after I've satisfied my own intellectual curiosity.