book for creating project

I think I do understand you well. Even though I'm sure yours and my thinking are very different, I also don't appreciate "Everything you need" too much. My thing is: we human are good in getting clear and very fundamental abstract ideas, not in digesting something big and complex; we also are good in generalization, some better than others, of course. Some do better with boring cookbook recipe, but not me, not at all. But having a boring digest full of not-a-first-principle detail is not comfortable for most of us.

Perhaps by that reasons, I developed a habit to try to solve all the problems by my own hands first, before coming to reading. (And I don't like "don't reinvent the wheel" thing; I think it is counterproductive. Just look at the modern car or bike wheels to see how much of good stuff was actually invented.) Does it waste time? No! First of all, there is really some little chance to invent something which nobody invented before. The chance is little, but if nobody used it, we would have almost no inventions. But let's consider the case when the "self-invented" results are bad or not quite satisfactory. When I give up and come to reading of the work of others, I can understand it much better. In fact, I would probably fail to understand most of advanced things from reading, unless I break my teeth very well on the difficult problem -- it really helps to understand the work of others.

--SA