Feels like efficiency, in the broadest sense, is massively overrated.
In some contexts you need to maximize resource management, but a lot of the time for things to actually work under any level of strain, you need redundancy.
Systems without slack break at a moment's notice.
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A thing it took me until /this year/ to learn. Sigh.
I thought if I were more efficient I'd be able to get more done, but turns out I just made everything more difficult for myself, oops.
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In the context of people it's even more applicable. Humans have lots of odd quirks in performance that aren't even universalizable.
E.g. I have AWFUL time efficiency when working, but can make up for it with extremely high energy potential when I am engaged in something.
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Same, basically about inefficiency/fast and high quality output unreliably.
Turns out the main thing to optimise for RE getting done things I want to do is "make it as easy as possible to start, and then do it in the easiest possible way".
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For me, it's "build and maintain momentum." If I slow down, I'm done.
I can even take a break in the middle of important work to play video games, as long as I'm equally-or-more energetic when I finish.
If I stop, building escape velocity from doing nothing is super hard.