> 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.
As a person with never-ending, over-ambitious side projects, I'd be interested in hearing more about this!
Well, it's a long story, but I tend to have a goal for every one of my projects; even if that goal is to provide a reusable library for other projects.
The vast majority of my projects are reusable libraries and SDKs (Swift Packages, for the most part).
I do every one of my projects as if I were delivering to a Fortune 50 corporation.
As a person with never-ending, over-ambitious side projects, I'd be interested in hearing more about this!