I recently opened my GitHub account and filtered by private repositories. I actually counted them: exactly 27 abandoned side projects created over the last 3 years. There was a machine-learning habit tracker. There was a Twitter clone for dogs. There was a complex SaaS boilerplate that I spent four weeks configuring before completely giving up on it. Some of them I spent weeks on. One I even bought a domain for. Hundreds of hours wasted. Why did they all die before seeing the light of day? It was not a lack of time. It was not a lack of motivation. Here is the controversial truth: Most developers do not fail because of a lack of skill. They fail because they secretly enjoy the dopamine rush of starting a new project more than the grind of finishing it. Here is the exact pattern that killed my 27 projects, and the rule that finally helped me break the cycle. 1. The "Perfect Stack" Trap As developers, we love shiny new tools.…