> I sat down the other night to get started in a grand project I’ve been getting so excited about ... The projects I dream up are super cool feats of hacker ability ... I’m going to be stuck screwing around with the most trivial boilerplate crap.
But obviously you are creative and come up with ideas. Probably you should be more picky in which ideas to pursue and which not. Personally I like grand, rabbit hole like projects. I think they are most fun when the time-result curve has early plateaus but also continues to go up later, i.e. already after working a day you have a proof-of-concept and after week or so, you already have something you like. I found such projects quite enjoyable in the past. It's no fun when even after a year you're still at 30% and the whole thing is only usable at >= 80%.
That said, I think there are also fun mini projects and it doesn't even have to be a running software. It could be Infrastructure as code or just a sketch of a library.
But obviously you are creative and come up with ideas. Probably you should be more picky in which ideas to pursue and which not. Personally I like grand, rabbit hole like projects. I think they are most fun when the time-result curve has early plateaus but also continues to go up later, i.e. already after working a day you have a proof-of-concept and after week or so, you already have something you like. I found such projects quite enjoyable in the past. It's no fun when even after a year you're still at 30% and the whole thing is only usable at >= 80%.
That said, I think there are also fun mini projects and it doesn't even have to be a running software. It could be Infrastructure as code or just a sketch of a library.