july

Finding time to find time

I think most of the time I’m doing things that don’t quite need to actually be done. It’s often worse when you work for a company, there’s even more stuff you don’t need to be doing that you end up doing

One of the ways to combat this is meta coordination - finding time to find the time to do the right things, to think through whether you’re doing the right thing or not but I sometimes it’s hard to convince myself that I need to find the time especially when I’m pressed for time. 

Ironically, this is probably the time I actually need to slow down the most and find time to coordinate my efforts rather than just diving into things and burning the tires out for seemingly no reason in retrospect

Working on building zkTLS infra/products. A ruthless empiricist and meme connoisseur.

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creating and destroying; built flying cars & autonomous vehicles, now building /faust, more here: /july, web: july.rocks

One can at least ballpark how much time needs to be found:

Let x be the fraction of the work day spent coordinating and O(x) be our productive output. Visibly, O(x) = (1 - x) P(x), where P is a concave, nondecreasing productivity function. If no coordination means no output and productivity gains diminish exponentially, we have P(x) = 1-exp(-bx), b>0. Suppose coordinating 30 min instead of 15 min daily would increase productivity by 50% and that one works 8 hours/day. Then, b ~ 22.2. Now solving dO/dx = 0, we get x* ~ 0.135 or that about 1 hour and 5 minutes of daily coordination is optimal cc @eulerlagrange.eth