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I’m a bit like Bender. I can only do 1 thing in a day, big or small. So an easy meeting that takes an hour uses up my day just as much as a 10 hour heavy lift writing an essay. So I’m most productive when I have a series of day-sized things to do.
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This is a Bender trait in the show. He can do huge things but only 1 at a time. He usually dies only a single significant positive plot level thing per episode. The rest of it is either causing problems or goofing off.
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Bender economics is like Edmond Dantes’ prison for enemies in Count of Monte Cristo. Everything costs the same: piece of bread and fancy chicken dinner both cost 100,000 francs
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It’s like spoon theory. Only 1 spoon per day for work but it can be very big or trivial. If you accidentally waste it on trivial you’re done.
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This is why I’ve slowly started saying no to all synchronous meetings that feel even slightly like work. You might ask for half an hour but you basically use up my day. Only truly idle meetings are non-disruptive. Mostly with known friends.
One of my strategies for when I get overwhelmed is to downgrade some of my commitments to myself to shitpost grade. No QA or standards at all. That way doing it doesn’t use up my One Thing budget. Ribbonfarm is in shitpost mode half the time.
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OTOH one way to ddos me is to dump 5 trivial things on me that resist bundling into 1 big thing and have a 1 week deadline. Congrats you’ve taken over my whole work week with like 2 hours worth of crap. One reason I went free agent is to simply block this exploit mode wholesale
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