They are good days indeed! As for your second point, I whole-heartedly agree. I was trying to allude to this in my last two sentences, especially the part in parentheses:
Throwing out obviously-poor solutions is easy (and is sometimes done subconsciously when you’re working in your domain of expertise, or done by other people before a decision gets to you), but weighing the remaining options usually takes some consideration. So, our subjective experience is that we spend most of our time and energy thinking about trade-offs.
But I think I should have dedicated more time to it. Originally I had a sentence in there that was something like “when I get dressed in the morning, I don’t celebrate the fact that putting my pants on forwards instead of backwards is both easier and more comfortable—I just do it that way automatically!”. You’ve expressed it better than I have, so I’m going to add your paragraph into the main post (credited to you of course).
They are good days indeed! As for your second point, I whole-heartedly agree. I was trying to allude to this in my last two sentences, especially the part in parentheses:
But I think I should have dedicated more time to it. Originally I had a sentence in there that was something like “when I get dressed in the morning, I don’t celebrate the fact that putting my pants on forwards instead of backwards is both easier and more comfortable—I just do it that way automatically!”. You’ve expressed it better than I have, so I’m going to add your paragraph into the main post (credited to you of course).