If it’s a book, you have the manuscript but no research, notes, or prior revisions. If it’s a program, you have the compiled binary but no source code or anything you would’ve learned writing it. Etc.

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    If it’s something I enjoy doing like making art? No.

    If it’s something I just want the outcome of, like building furniture? Yes.

    Which I realized is basically the difference in whether I would rather make something myself or buy it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯