Brain Food: Not Typical
The most practical skill you can learn is working smarter. But here's what nobody tells you about working smarter: it often looks like you're working slower.
A programmer might spend 20 hours wrestling with a difficult algorithm, then have an insight in the shower that solves it in 10 lines of code. Those 20 hours weren't wasted—they were necessary
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This is so counter-intuitive to what we most often believe about work today, but whole-heartedly agree. Usually, though, we overfill our todo lists and have no margin to consider, contemplate, and think.