The rule I try to apply for myself is: whenever it is at all possible to open a spreadsheet and/or calculator app. On the rare occasion it’s not possible (or would be impolite) the extra experience and intuition will be valuable. There’s much more risk that I will underuse it than overuse it.
Hrm, that is a good point. I suppose if I try to be more strict, it’s when there is a question of what to do, there are two or more approaches, and there is some difference in quantifiable risk and/or reward between the options, and I haven’t already pre-determined a best approach in advance that applies to the situation.
The rule I try to apply for myself is: whenever it is at all possible to open a spreadsheet and/or calculator app. On the rare occasion it’s not possible (or would be impolite) the extra experience and intuition will be valuable. There’s much more risk that I will underuse it than overuse it.
Can you be more specific? Presumably it was possible to open a spreadsheet when you were typing this answer, but I’m guessing that you didn’t?
Hrm, that is a good point. I suppose if I try to be more strict, it’s when there is a question of what to do, there are two or more approaches, and there is some difference in quantifiable risk and/or reward between the options, and I haven’t already pre-determined a best approach in advance that applies to the situation.