Quotes About Optimization

Never automate something that can be eliminated, and never delegate something that can be automated or streamlined.

No estás dedicando mucho tiempo a reflexionar sobre esta especie de macrooptimización.

y en la microoptimización,

The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Success by Achieving More with Less (288 pages) BY RICHARD KOCH

The next morning, I began a dissection of my business and personal life through the lenses of two questions: 1. Which 20% of sources are causing 80% of my problems and unhappiness? 2. Which 20% of sources are resulting in 80% of my desired outcomes and happiness?

Limit tasks to the important to shorten work time (80/20). 2. Shorten work time to limit tasks to the important (Parkinson's Law).

lifestyle design,

Never automate something that can be eliminated, and never delegate something that can be automated or streamlined. Otherwise, you waste someone else's time instead of your own, which now wastes your hard-earned cash.

Timothy Ferriss

Adelantar esta tarea ¿convertiría las demás en triviales o más fáciles de despachar después?». Dicho de otra manera: «¿Cuál de estas cosas, en caso de estar hecha, facilitaría las demás o las convertiría en irrelevantes?».

Timothy Ferriss

What is the unique mojo that I bring, and how can I try and amplify that?' Amplify your strengths rather than fix your weaknesses.

If effectiveness is doing the right things, efficiency is doing things right.

To prevent work for work's sake, and to do the minimum necessary for maximum effect ("minimum effective load").

What gets measured gets managed. —PETER DRUCKER, management theorist, author of 31 books, recipient of Presidential Medal of Freedom

Barry Schwartz's distinction between maximizers and satisficers has given us the counterintuitive insight that restricting our choices in life can actually lead to greater happiness and satisfaction, and

Do less, to do more, to earn more.

It's possible to make an organization more efficient without making it better. That's what happens when you drive out slack.

Good is often the enemy of best.

The revolution is built on three simple facts. (1) Every human movement, thought, or feeling is a precisely timed electric signal traveling through a chain of neurons—a circuit of nerve fibers. (2) Myelin is the insulation that wraps these nerve fibers and increases signal strength, speed, and accuracy. (3) The more we fire a particular circuit, the more myelin optimizes that circuit, and the stronger, faster, and more fluent our movements and thoughts become.

to the best account; it is an unintelligent waste of strength.

As a result, choosing between Plan A and Plan B is not a close call. Here's the astonishing finding from the Forrester data: If you Elevate the Positives (Plan B), you'll earn about 9 times more revenue than if you Eliminate the Negatives (Plan A). (8.8 times, to be precise.) Yet most executives are pursuing Plan A. (See the footnote for more on the methodology and an anticipated quibble.)II

What's working, and how can we do more of it?

We are fighting a war on load times.