whenever I’m faced with a seemingly insurmountable problem I’m always looking for the clever hack that can resolve it by a neat use of lateral thinking such that the solution is ingenious and yet much simpler than you would expect, and I don’t know where I picked up this habit because it has literally never worked, the solution always ends up being do a shit-ton of work and then do a shit-ton more work and then spend years polishing the mess until it doesn’t matter any more.
I don’t know where I picked up this habit
I know where I have: from preparing for math tests and programming interviews!
Huh, I have the *opposite* problem. I keep doing things in obvious-but-tedious ways and then later finding out that there was a clever way that would have solved it in thirty seconds. I’ve started deliberately trying to keep in mind “there might be an easier way of doing this, look around for one first before resorting to the long way”.
Hmm. Maybe this is actually a slightly different thing: you guys are over-applying *lateral thinking*, while I am under-applying *automation*.
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