Awesome post! I wonder if there’s a take-home that can improve motivation for some people here. I’m not convinced that telling people they don’t have to be perfect everyday will work. It could give them an out. A rationalisation on any given day that “it’s okay to slack today if I pull up the average later on”.
Also how do you create these graphs? They’re awesome
It’s possible to be stuck in local maxima for various optimization pressures. There are often cases where you can either do a task in the way that was presently most effective for you or try new ways to do the task.
Thanks! Yeah, I definitely think that “it’s okay to slack today if I pull up the average later on” is a pretty common way people lose productivity. I think one framing could be that if you do have an off day, that doesn’t have to put you off track forever, and you can make up for it in the future.
Awesome post! I wonder if there’s a take-home that can improve motivation for some people here. I’m not convinced that telling people they don’t have to be perfect everyday will work. It could give them an out. A rationalisation on any given day that “it’s okay to slack today if I pull up the average later on”.
Also how do you create these graphs? They’re awesome
It’s possible to be stuck in local maxima for various optimization pressures. There are often cases where you can either do a task in the way that was presently most effective for you or try new ways to do the task.
Thanks! Yeah, I definitely think that “it’s okay to slack today if I pull up the average later on” is a pretty common way people lose productivity. I think one framing could be that if you do have an off day, that doesn’t have to put you off track forever, and you can make up for it in the future.
I make the graphs using the [matplotlib xkcd mode](https://matplotlib.org/stable/api/_as_gen/matplotlib.pyplot.xkcd.html), it’s super easy you use, you just put your plotting in a “with plt.xkcd():” block