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How do you know when a piece of work is finished?

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Read by field Everyone Arts and letters 73 Politics and public life 1 Business and finance 1 Technology 1
Read by age Any age Before thirty 1 In their thirties 2 In their forties 2 In their fifties 2 In their sixties 6 Seventy and beyond 3
Derek Sivers Founder of CD Baby; author of Anything You Want
How do you know when it’s done? I think the real key is just asking yourself, would I be proud of this? Am I ready to release it? And I love the double meaning of that word. Release. I release an album, I release a book. You let go of it. It belongs to the world. Now it’s out of your hands.
Recorded Chelsea Riffe, podcast transcript, In My Non-Expert Opinion, 22 May 2024 source ↗

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