30/06/2022
I've always been one to look for absolute optimization and efficiency in my endeavours, whether it be a cold email title, the amount of words to use in an instagram message, etc.
While it is an absolute necessity to have efficiency in a market funnel, in your time usage, and more, I've often found that by trying optimize everything in my operations to the maximum, I drastically and negatively effect my net results. Let me further elaborate.
You can think of what I'm saying use two lines: effort spent on system optimization and effort spent on system input.
The line of effort spent on system optimization can be imagined as a curve with diminishing returns. The first few times would generate you great returns on your effort, that being net results. However, the more time you spent on system optimization, the less and less net results you'll benefit from, eventually harming your net output and results.
This is where the other line comes along. I'd like to imagine the line of effort spent on system input as a proportional linear line, the more input your put into your system, the more your system gives you a net outcome directly.
So how do these two lines relate to each other? Think of the line on optimization as a multiplier, which increases or decreases the slope of the line of system input.
By increasing your work efficiency via time spent on system optimization but not up to the point where further use of time does not generate return, you're able to maximally generate output per input and better allocate the time which would've been used for futile system optimization for more input, ultimately giving you better net outcomes.
