Didn't you also think it had to look perfect before realizing simple works better?

Could just be the placebo effect.

What if beginner's luck is just the brain not knowing what to worry about yet? You sit down at a poker table for the first time and play wild cards you'd never try later, and it works. Or you pick up a new video game and beat a hard level by accident because you didn't overthink it. The warranty runs out the second you learn the rules and start seeing all the ways you could lose.

Audit week turns my desk into a shrine to the late-night pepperoni pizza. My personal contribution is usually a sad pile of those powdered donut holes, which I’ll defend as a ‘fruit serving’ until the sugar crash hits around 3 PM.

Lmao, my friend Linda had the same thing happen, but with her cat. It kept triggering the lights at 3am and the shadows made the poor thing jump onto the fridge.