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Re:Lessons from a never-ending personal project by fmbb on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @06:12AM (#38694226)
I think people could be more clear in their language here.

Finishing a project is not the same thing as finishing the artifact the project is about.

A project to build a house can be completed so that you can sell the house. But someone buys it and continues to build on the house, so the house was not finished.

This applies not only to art I think. It’s a bit of a semantic discussion though, because I guess completing projects is the important bit. You cannot have too many things as work in progress.

Re:Lessons from a never-ending personal project by ChrisMarshallNY on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @07:55AM (#38694929)
Yes and no. Milestones get finished, and even continuing stories are composed of chapters.

BTW: Here's a couple of the things I did, back when: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34654770