Hello everyone, in this blog post I would like to share with you my experience in improving the productivity in doing some certain repetitive tasks.
Today, I was working on converting a bunch of files from one format to the other format, and there are multiple steps for converting each file. For example the whole job is to perform a sequence of (task 1 -> task 2 -> task 3) repetitively n number of times.
When the tasks are not scriptable and you only have yourself, then doing the first task n number of times before moving on to the second task for n number of times is a better strategy than finishing the sequence task 1, task 2, task 3 then go back to task 1 for the next round. The reason is that you utilize the short term memory and muscle memory to finish all task 1 repeatedly n times instead of switching your brain and muscle from task 1 to task 2 then task 3 and then back to task 1 again.
Overall, when you encounter these situations, my advice is to examine the productivity of your process and see if there is room for improvement. The effort in thinking a better strategy to improve your productivity is always worth it.
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