Little things certainly matter, but only a little. In my experience, the most limiting factor in productivity is motivation and being healthy. These things are orders of magnitude more beneficial, and rarely effected by, my machine's speed. For the work I do (web development), the bottlenecks are very rarely the machine itself. At worst, I need to restart Firefox once a day, which make take up to a minute as I eat a banana.
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How much time, focus, and motivation is lost due to slowdowns, though? Some days, they certainly seem to take rather large tolls.
The little things matter.
Little things certainly matter, but only a little. In my experience, the most limiting factor in productivity is motivation and being healthy. These things are orders of magnitude more beneficial, and rarely effected by, my machine's speed. For the work I do (web development), the bottlenecks are very rarely the machine itself. At worst, I need to restart Firefox once a day, which make take up to a minute as I eat a banana.