The Unfinished

Essays on the work that is never done — and why that is the work.

Nothing worth building is ever finished. The product ships and keeps changing. The work is never done. That is not the problem. That is the work.

We are taught to worship the finished thing. In a world that never stops changing, this worship quietly ruins us. The product ships and immediately begins to age; the project ends and its results require maintenance. A book about releasing the comforting fiction of done.

Digital edition · 57 pages · instant download (PDF).