- Maximalism
- FOMO level 1000 - more features = better AND needed
- decorations
- cloud is my friend, I don’t need control
- you pay with your time, just give the money & u’ll save time
- Minimalism
- Work > Tools - just get stuff done
- bloated is bad all the time
- use defaults + some minor modifications
- do what’s it’s good enough
- Optimizing value
- what minimalists should mean is priorities NOT what you do
- if your deadline is tomorrow stop fumbling with the neovim config, just do it another time
- core belief
- understanding & enhancing value
- study the lower level ideas or patterns that makes a good workflow/tool for you
- double down whenever you decide it’s worth it
- “good enough” is the enemy of perfect & friend of mediocrity
- not following general guidelines that just sounds wise
- saves you
- time
- minute based
- not very precise
- is not that you save 5s every minute since much of the time could be spent using software you can’t optimize much like watching yt videos
- just half the results and it should be very conservative & realistic
- 5 seconds saved a minute * 1h * 9h(computer hours) =
- 10m per-hour
=(5*60*9)/60 minutes in a day=(5*60*9)/60*7 minutes in a week=(5*60*9)/60*30 minutes in 30days=(5*60*9)/60*360 minutes in 1 year = =16200/60 hours = =270/24 days
- 5 seconds it’s easily reachable for anyone putting even just a little bit of effort into it so it’s a conservative value
- focus time
- the one u should be using for high leverage tasks
- it’s scalable
- for yourself
- it’s not about 1 tiny optimization
- It’s about 20 or more tiny optimizations that saves you time in the long run
- you’ll think better
- your tools DO matter in how you think
- eg
- Nooby mindset
- God I filled my google storage limit, need to pay more a month now…
- new problem new “best app” rabbit hole
- loosing time on searching known features
- Expert mindest
- We can automatize this workflow and give it to my employees so it’s going to save us money and time
- let’s re-use 60% of what we’re already using to solve this problem
- saving time on re-using features among software
- the deeper u go the more ways u discover to
- get better
- to solve problems
- and others
- what you learn u can teach to your agency / family to get direct value that scales
- more
- fun
- resilience
- control
- customization
- potential
- less
- distractions/admin tasks/annoyances
- dependencies
- eg of choices
- inoreader > newsboat - for the time being
- if you optimize when the outcomes won’t really make the difference you lost the opportunity to optimize something else with higher value for the current time, which is my case
- Time spent toward a goal/direction u want to follow is time good spent regardless