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In knowledge work we barely recognize the difference between immersive and process time. We actually tend to overvalue immersive time (sometimes called “deep work”), because that is when it feels like we are doing our best, most important work.
But it is actually process time that offers us the most leverage. Because the small actions we take to kick off process time unlock the efforts of others on our behalf.
Mise-en-Place for Knowledge Workers: 6 Practices for Working Clean
Tiago Forte
As far as I can tell, cognitive bandwidth and network bandwidth both display similar characteristics under that lens. That means that gaining extra capacity to understand what is going on, more clarity into the actions and functioning of the system is not likely to make your situation more comfortable in the long term; it's just going to expand how much you can accomplish while staying on that edge of understandability.
The Law of Stretched [Cognitive] Systems
Ferd.ca
In specification, the machine is the part of the system you have direct control over and the world is all the parts that you don’t.
The World and the Machine
Hillel Wayne
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