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Comment author: Stephanie_Cunnane 09 April 2012 02:15:40AM 12 points [-]

From this moment forward, remember this: What you do is infinitely more important than how you do it. Efficiency is still important, but it is useless unless applied to the right things.

-Tim Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

Comment author: CronoDAS 13 April 2012 08:18:15AM 3 points [-]

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently what should not be done at all.

-- Peter Drucker

(I've quoted this line several times before.)

Comment author: wedrifid 13 April 2012 09:12:00AM 3 points [-]

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently what should not be done at all.

Sure there is. Doing inefficiently what should not be done at all is even more useless. At least if you do it efficiently you can go ahead and do something else sooner.

It seems to me that efficiency is just as useful doing things that should not be done as it is other times, for a fixed amount of doing stuff that shouldn't be done.

Comment author: thomblake 13 April 2012 03:05:44PM 7 points [-]

Depends on the kind of efficiency, I guess.

If someone is systematically murdering people for an hour, I'd prefer they not get as much murdering done as they could.

Comment author: wedrifid 13 April 2012 05:50:27PM -1 points [-]

If someone is systematically murdering people for an hour, I'd prefer they not get as much murdering done as they could.

I did specify "for a fixed amount of doing stuff that shouldn't be done". If they are getting more murdering done, that is probably bad.

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