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by growwrkr6 1483 days ago
Perhaps you should slow down.

Adam Smith warned of extreme division of labor making for humans dumber than the dumbest animal (paraphrasing).

Sticking with one career forever is an outdated story; king says someone is farmer, that’s just how it is! It would be costly to upend history, they say.

Having worked in a kitchen, built houses from foundation up, helped deliver livestock, started in tech designing power switching equipment, coding professional now since 2006; having built muscle memory for numerous “professions” comes along with living in “flow state.” I can manage structured tasks across contexts without planning, without wincing at the difficulty or time being a factor; I can make way better than packaged or fast food faster than it can be picked up or delivered.

Taking time to boot strap the habit pays off in time savings down the road.