Day 8: inefficiency before optimisation

July 17, 2018

After a week of doing one video per day, the process is fairly easy, but it's been quite inefficient in terms of productivity.That inefficiency is necessary whenever you're learning anything new, but too many people try to optimise for efficiency of productivity from the start.Inefficiency comes first, optimisation comes second (only after you've figured out the basic process)

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