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You’ll be surprised how much those small automations and time savings pile up. And also if it keeps you in the flow it can make a quantitive difference truly qu

• nickjj 8y ago
  Yes, not only do they pile up, but there's another interesting win which isn't measurable in time. It's being happy. It's knowing you're using tools that let you get things done in a way that works best for you. Something like this has infinite value because it's the difference between waking up and dreading doing something because of the upcoming million paper cuts VS waking up really excited to do your task. That's the difference between writing nothing one day vs writing 5,000 top quality words.
  • james_s_tayler 8y ago
    This. I really feel optimization across this dimension perhaps the most. I just enjoy things much more. Maybe if you really want to quantify it you could think of the happiness factor as a multiplier. So you have a task that takes X time. What's say optimizing it is a net loss time-wise because it doesn't in aggregate save you more than you spent to perform the optimization. Say after optimization it only costs 0.8X time but it took 0.2X time to do the optimization so all benefit cancels out. But the difference being now happiness is 1.5 multiplier so you feel 50% better and the same aggregate amount of time is spent but it's much more enjoyable and therefore more valuable to you. Maybe I'm not explaining it well, but I totally feel this way about plenty of stuff.