I spent decades perfecting my code, never got anything worth mentioning done. To me it was important to realize that it's a way to escape reality, to protect the fuzzy bubble of intellectual masturbation. Truth is; if it doesn't work, no one cares; and rightly so. These days I try hard to stick with solving actual problems and continuously improving solutions; writing code like marathons rather than 100m sprints, growing it like a garden rather than constructing cathedrals.