I don’t think that going deep into rationality can realistically boost someone’s productivity by more than, perhaps, 2X.
Speaking about boosting productivity by X depends a lot on how you measure productivity. If you use rationality to recognize that a project in which you sent a lot of time should be abandoned despite of sunk costs that can increase productivity by 2X if you simply measure productivity by useful output.
Speaking about boosting productivity by X depends a lot on how you measure productivity. If you use rationality to recognize that a project in which you sent a lot of time should be abandoned despite of sunk costs that can increase productivity by 2X if you simply measure productivity by useful output.
Yep! This is true! I didn’t do a good job of thinking about more upstream things like that.