Go For Big Wins Rather Than Small Improvements
[This is something that came up in the context of my talk with Daniel about my promotion 202210031144. This is also a pretty common #productivity trope, so I’m going to refer back to this note whenever relevant in that context]
I think a lot about productivity, but this doesn’t really help my overall execution speed, which according to Daniel might be on the lower end of solid for L4. I think there are a couple of reasons for this:
- Because I can do small, consolidated tasks faster than most people, I’m more likely to #self-reflection take my foot off the gas once I’ve completed a small task, because I know I can afford to take breaks and finish things at roughly the same pace as other people.
- I’m not aggressively reprioritizing and making sure I’m focusing on the right things.
Both of these are somewhat related to each other. They each tie into productivity concepts I’m already aware of:
- For 1: I should emphasize completion-centric planning 202207052007 even more than I currently am.
- For 2: Every day, I need to think about the value of what I’m immediately working on, and whether it’s worth the additional time I’m spending. I don’t have a heuristic for this and I’m sure it’s going to be difficult to come up with an answer for this, but the long-term goal is just to polish my heuristic for this until I can do this intuitively, so thinking about it as much as possible (and talking to Keunwoo about it) seems like a good idea.
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