It’s quite possible he’s serious. Just start off with a lot of OCD.
To truly figure out whether some practice is inefficient, you can’t just decide that the alternative looks neater and puts things in a nice order. You have to actually figure out how much you’ll gain from the change and you have to make a good faith effort to find reasons why the inefficient practice really isn’t inefficient.
Things that appeal to OCD are just a special case of things which appeal to human biases, and like everything else in that category, we need to be really careful about accepting them.
It’s quite possible he’s serious. Just start off with a lot of OCD.
To truly figure out whether some practice is inefficient, you can’t just decide that the alternative looks neater and puts things in a nice order. You have to actually figure out how much you’ll gain from the change and you have to make a good faith effort to find reasons why the inefficient practice really isn’t inefficient.
Things that appeal to OCD are just a special case of things which appeal to human biases, and like everything else in that category, we need to be really careful about accepting them.