Because attention is a finite resource. I can only spend attention on minor problems by taking it away from major ones.
I think you've just identified one of the best ways to "break out of the box", or dare I say, make a paradigm shift.
The issue isn't whether attention (or anything else) is finite; it's "how to make it infinite", at least for the time being.
Example: I need to add horizontal scrolling (a critical user need) to my Report Writer. I would also like to add F-Key View Toggling (a nice to have) to my Form Look-ups. As a single founder, I am constantly asking myself, "How can I have it all, even with limited resources?" I have found that the trick is not to focus on what's limited, but on how to embrace my constraints and use them to get clever out of necessity. In this case, I wrote a single program that used the same routines to do both.
This doesn't work all the time, but it's surprising how often it does. You never know until you try. You never try until you have to. You never have to until you realize how limited your resources really are.
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Because attention is a finite resource. I can only spend attention on minor problems by taking it away from major ones.
I think you've just identified one of the best ways to "break out of the box", or dare I say, make a paradigm shift.
The issue isn't whether attention (or anything else) is finite; it's "how to make it infinite", at least for the time being.
Example: I need to add horizontal scrolling (a critical user need) to my Report Writer. I would also like to add F-Key View Toggling (a nice to have) to my Form Look-ups. As a single founder, I am constantly asking myself, "How can I have it all, even with limited resources?" I have found that the trick is not to focus on what's limited, but on how to embrace my constraints and use them to get clever out of necessity. In this case, I wrote a single program that used the same routines to do both.
This doesn't work all the time, but it's surprising how often it does. You never know until you try. You never try until you have to. You never have to until you realize how limited your resources really are.