Two sides of a coin?
I am so there for this: Efficiency is the Enemy: There’s a good chance most of the problems in your life and work come down to insufficient slack. Here’s how slack works and why you need more of it. Yes, absolutely, the need for wiggle room and redundancy in systems.
But I am also here for this: Embrace the Grind: 'The only “trick” is that this preparation seems so boring, so impossibly tedious, that when we see the effect we can’t imagine that anyone would do something so tedious just for this simple effect'. I can think of a lot of things that have involved someone or someones putting in some tedious repetitive grind at some point of some process so that at some other point it will be lovely and smooth and no worries for someotherones. (Funny, why should I think of those 'found hidden in the archives' that were catalogued and the catalogue put online and the documents neatly filed in conservationally appropriate folders and stored in repositories kept to appropriate conditions and made available to them in an efficiently run reading room, because processes were in place...)
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