I'm slowly realizing how sensitive I am to trivial inconveniences. A bad keyboard or slow computer makes me write much less. I spent way less time in the nearby park when I had to walk through an unpleasant industrial area to get there.
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I feel this really strongly with computational research: my experimental process is much more creative when experiments are fast than when they're slow. It's probably a good thing that I don't do wet lab work. 😅
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It's wild how much of a difference it makes.
One of the tools I work with all the time (docs.mesastar.org) varies from 'feedback in seconds' to 'feedback in a day' depending on what I'm trying to do. The difference between these in terms of my science is ridiculous.
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I guess that the version of this for humans is impatience/high time preference. benkuhn.net/impatient/.