"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all." — Peter Drucker
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Drucker was optimizing production processes, though. In multi-armed bandit problem of life, even the mistakes can yield much value. Plus, returns often convex. Acknowledging personal fallibility and positive skew means embracing industriousness and errors of commission, IMO.pic.twitter.com/CkESJnLGsI
Agreed, but idleness is, I think, essential to getting into the right casino. Freeman Dyson on Robert Oppenheimer:pic.twitter.com/6WrVhwBagz
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In my experience, oscillation between hard work and idleness, on all time scales, is really important for most people but rarely achieved in practice
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