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#166 – Cal Newport: Deep Work, Focus, Productivity, Email, and Social Media
Lex Fridman Podcast
How to Overoptimize Processes in a Scrum Environment
For the computer science perspective, we often over optimize. It's quicker just right now to send an email but if I spend a half day to do this over the next six months, I've saved myself 600 emails. Some of those programmers get pretty obsessive about it has to happen exactly this way and is probably seven times more complex than it needs to be. We have to be careful because you can just go down that fiddling path. You can't save yourself through, if you can get the process, just write.
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