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My high-school physics teacher always said, "be lazily efficient" and it's been a pretty sound guiding principle for me. That means I find shortcuts, optimize
by mkal_tsr 13y ago
My high-school physics teacher always said, "be lazily efficient" and it's been a pretty sound guiding principle for me. That means I find shortcuts, optimize menial tasks, and most importantly, look out for early signs of burn-out so I can back off, thus keeping more efficient in the long run, all while those "time wasting" tasks become automated (thus letting me work "harder" on the important things).
- j45 13y agoI had a teacher like this too... helped me learn and then forget, and then re-learn that getting more done with less effort is working smart. Trying to double that up leads to problems because working smart takes foresight and planning. I know in my earlier 20's I didn't have much more to my life than coding. I wasn't as well rounded and did not know that my time away from the keyboard made my work at the keyboard twice as fast. Maintaining that fine line of efficiency is key -- I've found being married to the right partner who gets the crazy runs, but ensuring it comes back to a norm is in place. I find I'm able to get done in hours by preparing and thinking a little what can take days of trying haphazardly and burning the candle at both ends, but everyone's mileage may vary.