It would be handy to provide a list of tasks that many people do often and that can be optimized (and how to) - i.e. normal everyday things, rather than programming. Particularly ones relevant to this post, i.e. where optimizing seems like more trouble than it’s worth. (Examples of the former abound—eg buying ready meals or Deliveroo instead of cooking, paying someone to do some of your admin. No good examples of the latter occur to me right now, but there must be some.)
Optimizing also includes dropping. In particular, dropping = not doing something at all, not because it’s of negative value, but because it’s lower value than other things you could do, i.e. a poor use of your time, and not easily outsourced. There may be things you could & should drop even though doing so involves time/effort and keeping going involves little.
It would be handy to provide a list of tasks that many people do often and that can be optimized (and how to) - i.e. normal everyday things, rather than programming. Particularly ones relevant to this post, i.e. where optimizing seems like more trouble than it’s worth. (Examples of the former abound—eg buying ready meals or Deliveroo instead of cooking, paying someone to do some of your admin. No good examples of the latter occur to me right now, but there must be some.)
Optimizing also includes dropping. In particular, dropping = not doing something at all, not because it’s of negative value, but because it’s lower value than other things you could do, i.e. a poor use of your time, and not easily outsourced. There may be things you could & should drop even though doing so involves time/effort and keeping going involves little.