How much time can I spend on customizing something to be more convenient and still save time in the long run? Can I spend half an hour to speed up a task I do daily by five minutes? Can I spend a month learning Emacs and save time in the long run? Can I spend two weeks learning how to touch-type?
The answers invariably are very much dependent on your personal work. But to me, the far more important question is:
Can I do anything that makes my life more pleasant? To me, personally, fish really improves my enjoyment of terminal usage. Productivity does not even enter this equation, but I suspect that I work faster when I am happy. I in fact do use fish, and Emacs, for the simple reason that I enjoy using them. I might be more productive with other tools, but I would not enjoy my work as much.
So yes, it is a matter of love. Do what you love, not what pays best.
I have the same comic posted over my desk. I've wondered in the past why the author didn't bother including the cases of 6 hours/day or 1 day/week saved, although I'll admit I have yet to accomplish anything that impressive.
I'll just keep it as long term goal to prove the edge cases in xkcd comics wrong. :)
Well said. I try to optimize for happiness and I'm much happier using fish than bash (which I'm reminded of every time I have to temporarily use bash).
How much time can I spend on customizing something to be more convenient and still save time in the long run? Can I spend half an hour to speed up a task I do daily by five minutes? Can I spend a month learning Emacs and save time in the long run? Can I spend two weeks learning how to touch-type?
The answers invariably are very much dependent on your personal work. But to me, the far more important question is:
Can I do anything that makes my life more pleasant? To me, personally, fish really improves my enjoyment of terminal usage. Productivity does not even enter this equation, but I suspect that I work faster when I am happy. I in fact do use fish, and Emacs, for the simple reason that I enjoy using them. I might be more productive with other tools, but I would not enjoy my work as much.
So yes, it is a matter of love. Do what you love, not what pays best.