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Mm, but nonconformity also generally means answering more questions and researching more deeply into various subject matter. All of this causes cognitive load.
by bovermyer 11y ago
Mm, but nonconformity also generally means answering more questions and researching more deeply into various subject matter. All of this causes cognitive load. And if you're spending all day every day tweaking your operating system, browser, IDE, or what-have-you, then you're choosing not to spend time on other problems. I'm not saying that's bad; just that it should be something to be aware of. It's why Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg had supremely boring wardrobes; one less thing to think about, one less thing to take time away from solving other problems.
- pcote 11y agoEnvironment context switches can have cognitive load too. Going from Win 8 to Cygwin is like that. So is Win 8 to a Linux VM. That's probably one of the biggest reliefs of the Linux switch as the host OS. To work with a vagrant box or ssh into a cloud server actually requires LESS wrestling and tweaking with the host OS. The transition from one context to another is a lot smoother. So that's one less distraction when it comes to the actual projects I'm tackling.