<i>> Finishing anything is a miracle in and of itself. A huge shoutout to anyone who’s ever done anything to completion at all.</i><p>He is writing about art (creative writing), as opposed to commercial product. Art is fairly inward-focused, and its goals can be a lot “fuzzier” than product. I was an artist, in my Yute. At one time, I wanted to actually make a living from it.<p>But artists finish, all the time. Some, treat their art as a product, and that seems to help, but they also risk commoditization of their creativity.<p>I’ve spent pretty much my entire life, shipping software. That’s been for externally-imposed deadlines, usually as part of an integrated team, with synchronized milestones.<p>As he mentions, that helps a lot.<p>Since working on my own stuff, I’ve had to drastically reduce the scale of my work, and practice self-discipline that, I suspect, many folks here would consider extreme.<p>But I still finish stuff. Finishing stuff is actually part of the personal satisfaction that I get. It’s an art, in itself.