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by tmsh 5757 days ago
Negative capability

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_capability

isn't quite the same thing, but it may be related. Flexibility with ignorance can lead to better understanding of one's ignorance and faster adaptiveness overall.

Per programming productivity, I think it about with stacks or queues. There's always something you can work on -- and variously they all eventually 'dovetail' together.