Never underestimate the personal satisfaction of spending a day, or a week, installing, playing or configuring one's tools!
In the past, we customized our workflow while in the flow. Now, to approximate that freedom, we have to futz around up front, with the limited control levers they give us. In a slow feedback loop with any actual work, to get our tools to help us in the way we want.
Which for complex tools and work, can rapidly become its own end.
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Never underestimate the personal satisfaction of spending a day, or a week, installing, playing or configuring one's tools!
In the past, we customized our workflow while in the flow. Now, to approximate that freedom, we have to futz around up front, with the limited control levers they give us. In a slow feedback loop with any actual work, to get our tools to help us in the way we want.
Which for complex tools and work, can rapidly become its own end.