The important point here is that you can become much more effective by cutting wasted activity.

Wasted motion and power saps your time, energy, and motivation. It obscures your vision. It creates unnecessary risk. It decreases your awareness and adaptability.

Examples from my own life: - Teach kids to self-assess using an explicit rubric, instead of delivering feedback yourself every step of the way.

- Move slower and use the minimum power possible when doing chores.

- Jog more slowly and stay in zone 2, where you feel like you can go forever.

- Determine the smallest software performance test scale that makes the issue you’re trying to resolve reliably apparent.

- Resolve as much uncertainty as you can about new software features through separately scripted spikes before attempting to orchestrate them in the full codebase.

- Invest passively in index funds.

- Strip down presentations and pause a few seconds after most sentences. That lets the message sink in, gives you space to decide if you need to say more, and gives the audience a chance to respond if you’re not addressing their confusion effectively.