The Quiet Sabotage: Why Most of My Dead Projects Died of Overthinking

Kevin Lynagh published a short essay this week about how he sabotages his own projects by overthinking, scope creep, and structural diffing. Four hours researching semantic diff tools when he needed an Emacs shortcut. Hundreds of hours on background research for a Clojure-Rust hybrid and a constraint-based CAD tool, neither shipped. The piece landed on me hard because I have been keeping a list. My list is of projects I killed without shipping. Over the last three years it has grown to about for