It took over 30 years, but I've finally gotten good at avoiding feature creep. The trick is to tell yourself "I'm just looking to get it working for now - I can upgrade when I know more about what it needs," then never upgrade anything.
Oh, my fancy headphones are just plugged into a normal headphone jack instead of that DAC and amp I was going to get? Whatever, they still sound pretty good. Oh, I got that fancy graphics card but never got a 4k monitor to make use of it? Whatever, I play more Minecraft than anything else anyway.
Better to have something that works well enough than leave everything half-assembled because I lost motivation before I figured out what all I needed to finish it.
It took over 30 years, but I've finally gotten good at avoiding feature creep. The trick is to tell yourself "I'm just looking to get it working for now - I can upgrade when I know more about what it needs," then never upgrade anything.
Oh, my fancy headphones are just plugged into a normal headphone jack instead of that DAC and amp I was going to get? Whatever, they still sound pretty good. Oh, I got that fancy graphics card but never got a 4k monitor to make use of it? Whatever, I play more Minecraft than anything else anyway.
Better to have something that works well enough than leave everything half-assembled because I lost motivation before I figured out what all I needed to finish it.