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> Don’t worry about what you need to know in order to finish a project, you already have everything you need to start.

Oh. Do worry. Worry much. Because the time you spend down a road that leads nowhere may not be worth what you learn on the way there.

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That is a major pain, but the alternative — doing nothing — is an even worse use of your time. If you're fairly competent and resourceful, you're more likely to talk yourself out of doing something than you are to run into a dead end halfway through. And even if you do find that you truly can't finish, does that put you in a worse place than if you'd spent the time watching CSI?

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