Mundane Tasks Productivity
Discussions center on the value of personally handling unglamorous or 'dirty' work like chores and tedious tasks for satisfaction, momentum, and insights, versus automating, delegating, or skipping them to focus on more enjoyable or important activities.
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Do things you enjoy, automate or delegate things you don't enjoy.
To do the work that no one else wants to do.
One of the smartest things you can do is to work on dumb things no-one else wants to do.
Chores are the best bc you can meditate on ideas whilst closing a tangible todo item
many things "get the job done", but it's the nature of that "job" and how much effort it takes which is in question.
How about just getting the work done?
There's probably an argument to be made that at least those tasks might help push you out of a rut if you've spent hours banging your head against a wall. God knows cleaning my desk is probably a better use of my time right now than commenting yet again on HN.
The joy of getting things done..
Yup. It's natural human tendency to reduce mundane work. But it can be illuminating how much you can improve results by stepping in and getting your hands dirty first.
I think often the amount of 'dirty work' we end up engaging in expands to fill the space allocated to it.