a skill i want to learn

welcome to introspection ft. harsehaj! ⭐️ i’m harsehaj, an 18 y/o always up to something in social good x tech.

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onto today’s topic: a skill i want to learn 🚢

i have a habit of building out ideas and projects but never putting them out into the real world for people to use.

i always stay complacent with the prototyping, mvp, or theory stage and never actually ship out my ideas. it doesn’t matter if i have hundreds of ideas stored in a notion doc if i’m not actually doing anything with them. 😵

it’s that over-planning without execution mentality that i mentioned earlier again. i fear imperfection, and stop myself from putting out built ideas unless they’re fully developed and ready to take on millions of users. that’s a pipe dream. i’m never going to build something perfect without learning from user feedback and mistakes.

i know this, but have a hard time actually putting this insight into practice.

i want to learn the skill of shipping out products or ideas. i want people to use something i build, instead of me just showing them prototypes and mockups. i want to create beautiful experiences for users, but that’s only possible if there’s an experience in the first place.

shipping out projects is a skill i desperately want to learn, and that’s exactly why i’m joining buildspace nights & weekends’ s4 cohort. i’ll be making progress towards shipping a project over 6 weeks, and completing required deliverables to keep myself accountable. i’m taking on this more structured approach through buildspace so i can start getting my hands dirty and learn this skill.

i hope to take what i’ve learned over the next 6 weeks, and replicate the process by myself to bring many more projects into fruition.

coming up with an idea is one thing, but bringing users onto it and actively using it is an even larger mountain to climb. if you want to stay updated with my hike up this mountain, my nights & weekends updates go up on twitter (x?). you can take a peak at what i’ll be building. (;

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