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by austin-cheney 405 days ago
What you describe is a form of anxiety. The behaviors and the problem is the same whether you are talking about code or a mountain of dirt. You need to address that directly without medication. The healthy way most people solve for this is by embracing stress, often not by choice, adversity.

As far as your large project just take it a step at a time. Have something to execute, then write your first feature or solution, then add some usability, then do type checking or linting or whatever, then refactor as necessary, then determine if that first feature should be expanded or if you need a second feature, then, then, then…