Build Because You Love It #004

Brock picks the topic this week — and he's noticed something: you two keep shipping things and immediately starting the next one. That kicks off a surprisingly personal episode about the creator's addiction: why we build, when it's expression vs. avoidance, and what your unfinished project graveyard actually says about you. Zach and Evan dig into the build-in-public culture, AI burnout, Gen Z's rejection of AI slop, whether artists can still compete when an LLM can clone a melody in under a minute, and the quiet danger of chasing the next thing before you've sat with what you already made. Takeaway: audit your backlog. Three unfinished projects — why did you start them, and why did you stop?