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71: Tradeoffs

Time and Attention

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Is It Worth It to Do More Edits or Editing Edits?

i think there's this is you want to be doing tasks that have added value up to the point where the cost of doing them is no ger worth it. And i think you can kind of see this trade off when you're doing work like for matting or fryet formatting, or editing documents. After a certain point, the extra with the marginal cost of adding more of these edits and investing more time and more attention into eding and editing this document are going to be so much higher than the added benefits that you get out of polishing the document just a little bit more. So thinking about whether you need to keep fiddling with something that is not giving you a lot more

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