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I don't agree with the article that reducing pressure is the most important thing. It's not particularly helpful advice when you do find yourself with a time cr

I don't agree with the article that reducing pressure is the most important thing. It's not particularly helpful advice when you do find yourself with a time crunch. Instead, I'd say there's a difference in quality of thinking. If ten minutes go by while you're trying to make a decision, how many distinct thoughts have you had? Did you just replay a given scenario 8 times over and over in your head? Did you just stress about the worst possible scenario the whole time? Or did you consider things from different directions and dig into possible different outcomes, as well as the input data you have available? I see it similar to the "do you have ten years of experience, or one year of experience ten times?" saying about what you do (or don't) learn in a job...

kleer001 6y ago
> find yourself with a time crunch It's also important to ask why that time crunch happened. Avoidable mishaps? Random chance? Poor management?
jay_kyburz 6y ago
What is really difficult is to reduce pressure so you can think clearly, but maintain a culture of urgency, or perhaps the right word is "momentum". I'm working in a small team on some software that we'll finish in a year or two and sell for x dollars. We are self funded so every day we spend on the product is another dollar we need to earn to recoup our investment. The longer we take, the greater the risk we won't ever see a return. The product needs to be good, but we also need to build it fast.