PeterPan321:
As a person who has always considered themselves a "decent" engineer, but a lousy businessman, one of the lessons I'm having to teach myself is to limit my curiosity. Its very easy to get so sidetracked in the details of how lower level features work, and why designers made certain decisions, that I completely lost track of the big picture, which is that I'm tying to get a project prototype past the "design" stage, and start thinking about the challenges of "product-izing" my latest "widgets". One of the best managers I ever had before retirement had to chasten me time and again when it was time to "STOP DEVELOPING" a project, stamp a version on it, and call it a DONE.
Yes, I made the same mistake on one of my clock projects once. (It was supposed to be a birthday gift, and Iended up delivering it three or four months late.)
I am reminded of the Donald Knuth quote: "Premature optimization is the root of all evil."