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I read a very boring but useful paper on curiosity by Lowenstein.

He frames curiosity as a drive (similar to eg hunger.)

If you’re starting but not finishing projects, maybe it’s due to curiosity about a sub problem that you hack a solution for.

But once your curiosity is satisfied and you have no other drive eg money, stars on Github, you finish without releasing it

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In my native Finnish tongue we do use, interchangably, expressions "tiedonjano" and "tiedonnälkä" which directly translate to thirst/hunger for knowledge. Even "tiedonmuru" is a crumb of knowledge or data, as in bread crumb.

That's an interesting take, and certainly one I empathize with. Did Lowenstein argue that not finishing projects is a negative trait as it's often portrayed as?

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