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It’s easy to say “increase tempo!” But man is it hard to actually do without superlinear increase in energy input. It’s easy to double your pace if you quadruple the energy. The trick is to do it for just 2x or less.
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Basic physics is more than a metaphor here. Kinetic energy is 0.5mv^2. I suspect that’s a baseline for everything. For non-physics-limited things, you can beat quadratic growth in energy needs with velocity, but you need to either exploit other humans, or the built environment.
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I’ve been trying to increase my tempo of work, and I’m discovering it is: 10% refactoring schedules, 20% refactoring content (unbundling/febundling), 30% better habits (sleep, diet, exercise), 40% working on stamina (working at say 10% higher intensity for 10% longer every week)
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IIRC there's a built-in pause in electrically-gated Na and K channels so that the action potential doesn't go the wrong way. Also the release time of synaptic vesicles. Again, this is all fuzzy, but it's something like 10 m / sec.
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