I started coding around 14. My father bought me a book called Now I Learn Visual Basic 4.0. I was pretty determined to make a game back then and somehow, I made

I started coding around 14. My father bought me a book called Now I Learn Visual Basic 4.0. I was pretty determined to make a game back then and somehow, I made it. It was a stupid game. The player basically had to click around randomly to "find" gold and it wasn't fun at all. But I enjoyed working on it, learning how to program, drawing little gold nuggets in MS Paint. And then, two other games followed. One of them even made it into a German PC games magazine around 2000. I couldn't believe that my name was printed in that magazine along with 4 other people who submitted their "indie" games. Back then, I didn't care about any "competition". I just made that damn thing, because I wanted to. Now, I have a quite successful SaaS business that allows me to work as few as 2 hours per week and still earning twice as much as in the year I had a normal job. Again, this started as a hobby in 2006. I didn't look left and right, I just wanted to learn some PHP coding. In 2015, I struggle to find a new idea, a new project to work on. Everything seems to exist already, many people are way better coders than me, which paralyzes me. If I have an idea, I go on GitHub and find 10 projects that implement my idea in a better way. Then, once in a while, I try something new only to find out that it gains no traction at all if I don't promote it. Richard Feynman said that he struggled with physics at some point, and only when he re-discovered his playful attitude towards physics, he could enjoy it again. I know this feeling, because this is how I had the most fun with my projects and with a bit of luck, one of them turned my life upside down. I guess, I followed the karmacondon's advice pretty closely without knowing about it (Learn how to make things. Start now, and never stop.) and it worked out. Thank you karmacondon for writing it down in such a concise way and remind me how it all started for me. I need reminders like that to find back to a playful mindset.