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.

Never mind elaborate projects. I have many thousands of hours in some Bethesda game I never even finished. I can be hundreds of hours into a playthrough then not play for a week. When I pick it up again I lost track of what I was doing, so I have to make a new character and start from scratch again.

As an engineer with ADHD and an affinity to design and build stuff for fun halfway… I feel seen.

Unpopular opinion, but with the last step change in the robots' capabilities this past winter, I have finally gotten more projects across the finish line in the past couple of months than I have in the last five years. The claude code max sub has been worth every penny. Sorry for the people in the US suffering because of all those data centers y'all got. But my projects will be completed - ADHD be damned. Maybe my water/petrol guzzling prompts will convince your government it should transition to renewables.