[nikolay]

Most developers like solving problems - this gives them high. Often, without realizing it, they create problems they are eager to solve to get their dose. Solving problems can be quantified, too. Unfortunately, it's hard to quantify the number of problems avoided by manifesting! Often this goes against the first goal I mentioned. For example, solving one problem 10 times gives you closing 10 tickets, making 10 PRs, and contributing a lot more LOCs in a short amount of time. But creating one PR and one ticket, which not only prevents those 10 but 100s and 1,000s more in the future, is quantified as "less work." I've had this at one job recently where every time I suggested fixing a repeated issue was answered with: "We have a bigger fish to fry." Yet, we kept wasting time frying tadpoles.