· Brittany Ellich · illustration  · 1 min read

The Side Project Life Cycle

A six-section comic with The Side Project Lifecycle. 1 - Initial excitement with a stick figure saying 'Imagine all the good this could do!', 2 - Quick progress with a stick figure typing at a computer and saying 'Time to drop everything and hyper focus. 3 - Reality plateau with a stick figure saying 'Wow this is actually a ton of work'. 4 - Distraction procrastination with 'Maybe if I just take the time to learn Rust first...', 5 - Complete abandonment with a GitHub repo for a cool side project where the last commit was 2 year ago.

Signed, my 92 barely-touched GitHub repositories.

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