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Knitting is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors. Once you realize that a sock is just a piece of yarn transformed through a series of knots, you can determine that it's topologically equivalent to where you started and you don't need to knit the other sock.
A knit is not a knot.
You could make it challenging, like knit the second sock in a mirror image, reversing the knitting direction that you have learned and practiced.
While this is definitely a problem developers face, many of the solutions in this article only apply to socks. HN, do you have any tips for completing personal projects when they stop being fun?
E.g. plan to put it on your homepage or github. Or if it isn't suitable look to present it at some event, a local hackerspace or even to your friends or relatives.
By having a goal like that you are forcing yourself over the edge while at the same time making visible what you are doing all the time which both benefits you in the end.
While this can be scary, with the right audience it can be extremely gratifying to get recognition for what you're doing.
Edit: of course you really don't need to finish every project you start. Sometimes you learn so much during a project that you would actually so it differently if you were to start again.
However, from the title I thought it was about the law (if it's not a law, it should be) that says that if a pair of sockets in a drawer are put together you can easily find the pair. Instead if you find one of the socks of the pair, the other sock of the pair, while still in the drawer, is mysteriously teleported into another dimension, never to be found again.
Cache/archive/mirror: https://archive.is/jrQ4n#selection-727.0-731.211 In short: > What is the Second Sock Syndrome? > SSS usually refers to the inability to produce complete pairs of socks. Knitting the first sock usually goes quickly. But the second one seems to drag on, never gets completed or even cast on in the first place. It's entirely a knitting blog, but surely this was posted here as it's a problem I know I…
Being creative and innovative have their downsides. Most of them find it impossible to do repetitive tasks.
Cache/archive/mirror: https://archive.is/jrQ4n#selection-727.0-731.211 In short: > What is the Second Sock Syndrome? > SSS usually refers to the inability to produce complete pairs of socks. Knitting the first sock usually goes quickly. But the second one seems to drag on, never gets completed or even cast on in the first place. It's entirely a knitting blog, but surely this was posted here as it's a problem I know I…
As such, I was going to skip the article. Fortunately, I saw mumblemumble's comment below