Huh. That’s for a well-defined concrete goal outside the system that doesn’t require substantial revision by the system you’re evaluating. This suggests that if you see yourself operating at 60% of capacity, you’re at neutral (neither accumulating debt nor making progress) with respect to metacognitive slack. Fortunately, if your metacognition budget is very small, even a very small investment—say, the occasional sabbath—can boost the resources devoted to it by one or more orders of magnitude, which should show substantial results even with diminishing returns.
Huh. That’s for a well-defined concrete goal outside the system that doesn’t require substantial revision by the system you’re evaluating. This suggests that if you see yourself operating at 60% of capacity, you’re at neutral (neither accumulating debt nor making progress) with respect to metacognitive slack. Fortunately, if your metacognition budget is very small, even a very small investment—say, the occasional sabbath—can boost the resources devoted to it by one or more orders of magnitude, which should show substantial results even with diminishing returns.