an argument about when you should handle problems and in what batch size seems really relevant to my own brain problems
an argument about when you should handle problems and in what batch size seems really relevant to my own brain problems

jessitron.com When costs are nonlinear, keep it small.
Batching work is more efficient … until cost rises nonlinearly with batch size. Then smaller batches are the most efficient. So don’t delay maintenance!

Does anyone else find that their ability to tackle a to-do list scales inversely to the size of the to-do list?
That you end up doing no steps of a multi-step task far more often than one-step tasks?
Sometimes someone will ask me to do something and I will start doing it immediately and they will say, Oh, It's Not Urgent and I don't know how to explain that if I don't do it right then it will fall off the list.