Things kinda changed for me when I realized that 'discipline' actually should refer to scope. what's fun about side projects is that the scope is unconstrained

Things kinda changed for me when I realized that 'discipline' actually should refer to scope. what's fun about side projects is that the scope is unconstrained. you work on whatever you want to work on. you change scope at any time. I found it helpful to explicitly think about the scope of my side projects. to answer the question "what will I ship when this is done." The answer is, of course, that it's never done -- that's because the scope can change at any time. the solution is to keep the lofty ideal very large but greatly cut the scope of the intermediate steps. the answer isn't discipline of "finish it" -- it's the discipline to "scope it."