It's not as big a loss as it looks, because now I have have leftover supplies, which will help me talk myself into doing this all over again with a new project!
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and you're not actually learning all that much early on (you're going to be wasting lots of time and resources doing the wrong things and going back to redo what you did [...])
I love the self-awareness in this comment.
One thing though:
That is learning!