Does skill at a task correlate with difficulty of prioritizing work for that task (ie avoiding perfectionism)? For software, when I was inexperienced but really productive I think I was more likely to hit 80/20 rule. Harder when you know more. Interested in others experiences!
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When inexperienced but productive, it is easier to rationalize away perfectionism because making improvements takes longer. Not going to start work over if it will take me another 5 hours, but maybe I will if it only takes 1 hour... (Repeat 5 times for different quality measures)
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Unpacking “rationalizing away perfectionism”: if I can pump work out quickly and I have no hope of matching quality of more experienced peers, I’m prob going to convince myself more work is worth more than polish. I also don’t intuitively know what I’m missing with lower quality
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With more skill, I can *feel* more confident when forecasting the consequences of cutting corners. Doesn’t mean I’m right though, maybe it is a strength to have less skill and be naturally blocked from trying to plan too far out
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Implication is that improving concrete skills (e.g. software dev) might decrease fuzzier skills that inherently are about trade offs (e.g. shipping software products at the right pace). You might get worse at your real job for a while before you get better.
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