Hey all! Finishing up a five song playlist that I will be sending out this week. Feedback is completely welcome, however, the thing I could really use your help with is figuring out what artists each of these sounds like! I'm finishing the metadata tonight and tomorrow so whatever artists you feel would fit well under the "Sounds Like..." would be very helpful! Thank you!! https://s.disco.ac/wxafcjguqvkz

There's a library composer who's been placed 40,000 times. Do the math and it works out to one cue a day, every day, for 15 years. What I see is consistent output aimed at about 80% instead of chasing perfect. Most people can't even tell the difference between someone's 80% and their 95%. If you're stuck polishing one track for a week, you're optimizing for the wrong thing. What's your "aim for 80%" number: how many tracks could you actually finish this month if you stopped chasing perfect?

Between briefs due, vocals getting recut, and backlogs finally getting cleared out, this weekend is about closing loops, not opening new ones. Whatever's sitting at 80-90% done on your hard drive right now, that's the one. Comment with the one thing you're finishing (not starting) this weekend. I'll check back in on this thread on Monday to see who actually did it.

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This week I watched an Accelerator member give themselves a full week to write a song instead of one day. They got less done. Rabbit-holed on synth sounds for hours because they had "time." More time doesn't mean more finished. Often, the constraint is the very thing that actually gets you unstuck, not the thing holding you back. What's your natural deadline? Is it a day, a week, a month... and be honest, does giving yourself more time actually help you finish? Or does it just give the second-guessing more room to move in?