Thanks for writing this! I notice that this post seemed to have received some downvotes. I remember that when I read this post for the first time I felt a little irritated because I thought this post is not clear whether it (as I suppose) should be thought of as a summary of the concept of “wasted motion” from the Replacing Guilt series, or as an independently reached original contribution.
Thanks for the comment, Meerpirat. This is the latter, but felt closely enough related to use the same terminology. I’d started writing the “Getting Excited about Efficiency” post and realized that the idea didn’t resonate with some people because they didn’t viscerally grok why getting more stuff done was valuable. So I wrote this post about why people should care about the ideas in Half-Assing It, or my later Noticing and Getting Excited posts.
Thanks for writing this! I notice that this post seemed to have received some downvotes. I remember that when I read this post for the first time I felt a little irritated because I thought this post is not clear whether it (as I suppose) should be thought of as a summary of the concept of “wasted motion” from the Replacing Guilt series, or as an independently reached original contribution.
Thanks for the comment, Meerpirat. This is the latter, but felt closely enough related to use the same terminology. I’d started writing the “Getting Excited about Efficiency” post and realized that the idea didn’t resonate with some people because they didn’t viscerally grok why getting more stuff done was valuable. So I wrote this post about why people should care about the ideas in Half-Assing It, or my later Noticing and Getting Excited posts.