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FTA: this is the TL;DR and there's a lot of truth in it. Given the cost of maintaining everything we build, it would literally be better for us to do 10%

• chrismarlow9 4y ago
  But then what will I put on my resume and how will I answer all those behavior questions in STAR format so I can pile a bunch of new tech into my next job and then rinse and repeat?
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• fuzzfactor 4y ago
  True dat. It works like this in scientific research too, except the worthwhile stuff is only 1%, not the full 10%, so that's another order of magnitude worse X. So basically if you develop for 100 days, only one of the daily milestones will actually be useful, and it may or may not happen much earlier than when all 100 days have passed. Also you may or may not realize which 1% it is right away either. But once you've got it, that's the critical 1% that allows you to go forward the very next day. And the next day is what really counts, otherwise zero progress toward the larger goals. Even after a large goal has been reached, you might still get the feeling that you wasted a whole lot of days along the line there. Knowing that if you just had, and recognized, the key milestone the very first day of the project, you would be as much as 99 days ahead by comparison. Now, doing the math, if you work one tenth as much it will take 1000 days to accomplish the same thing instead. These orders of magnitude are killing me, you must avoid even conceptualizing the possibility that 999 days could be wasted now. Which is OK, for some things I do that too. Other things I like to be a lot more than 99 days ahead on. Always have.