Nice article, lot of good advice in there. This, "Here’s what I’m NOT advocating: endlessly tweaking and “fixing” a piece. We’ve all been there. It can become an endless cycle. Eventually you do have to let go of your babies" reminded me a lot of a story I heard when I was first starting out. I had asked another engineer what exactly a producer does, and the short answer is he tells you when to stop. He said he had once been doing some editing work on a film a friend of his had made. The guy had decided he was going to write, direct, and produce it himself. It started off well, but then came the endless tweaking. Fix this, polish that, re-cut after re-cut literally for years until the film was a shadow of its former self; an incoherent mess of a film. That's why you need a producer sometimes, someone who isn't emotionally attached to the work, who can step in with an objective eye and authority and say, "it's done".