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Imagine that you produce reports that your company sells. Further, imagine it takes seven hours of core effort to complete a single report, and each report that you’ve committed to write generates one hour per day of overhead tax (emails, meetings, occupied mental space, and so on) until it’s completed.[*] In this thought experiment, if you commit

the easiest way to remove operational psychological friction.

Is there a point at which doing more does not produce more? Is there a point at which doing less (but thinking more) will actually produce better outcomes?

As you work through tasks, ask yourself: Do I really need to be optimizing here, or is the best thing to do simply to eliminate it completely? Does this activity build toward my goals, satisfy my values, or fit with my ideal vision of myself? Even if I need to tackle this task now, do I need to tackle all of it now? What part of this task is truly