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I change jobs. I don't have a Facebook or Twitter account. The televisions were trashed over a decade ago. My home page is my personal KanbanFlow page, modified

I change jobs. I don't have a Facebook or Twitter account. The televisions were trashed over a decade ago. My home page is my personal KanbanFlow page, modified to follow Mark Forster's Final System. It almost works. I make sure not to overcommit myself. A study shows that scheduling has to be considered independently of effort, ability and experience. If I am not doing what I think I should be doing, I try to change the environment so that not doing what I should be doing is harder than doing what I should be doing. I don't believe that the exercise of willpower is any kind of solution. Its usefulness is limited largely to the minimum expenditure necessary to operate within the environment one designs to encourage work. Also, I try to operate on a long time horizon. If something I do isn't going to have a discernible impact 10,000 years from now, I consider whether the opportunity cost is too high.

dredmorbius 13y ago
If something I do isn't going to have a discernible impact 10,000 years from now, I consider whether the opportunity cost is too high. I'd be really curious as to what crosses that threshold, and how you determine this. I also find it a very interesting viewpoint in light of the famous JM Keynes quote, which I've only just encountered in a longer form: But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again. h/t: /u/wumbotarian on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/Economics/comments/1tzb9c/10_quotes_from_john_maynard_keynes/ced6677 http://www.reddit.com/r/Economics/comments/1tzb9c/10_quotes_...
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