The easiest project to criticize is the one you never had the courage to start.

Criticism is free and requires no exposure, which is why the projects you never started have such clean records. Anything real accumulates flaws by existing, and comparing your unbuilt version to someone’s built one is comparing an idea to an object.

When you find a project easy to fault, check whether you have ever done the equivalent. Not to silence the criticism, but to weigh it properly against what making anything actually costs.