Watching tutorials forever feels like progress. Building one ugly thing on your own is progress.

CREATIVITY

WHAT THIS MEANS

Finishing something ugly puts a real object in the world and teaches you the parts no explanation covers: the decisions, the dead ends, the piece that would not line up. Taking in more material postpones all of that while feeling diligent, because watching contains no failure. One finished bad attempt outweighs a shelf of understood tutorials.

Set a scope small enough to complete in an evening and build it with whatever you know now. Let it be lopsided. Then watch one video to fix the specific part you could not do.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

What could you build badly this week instead of watching?

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