True but also let's be honest, sometimes it works great, but sometimes it doesn't work at all, and sometimes it works but took 100 times as much time and effort.

[–] Zak8022@artemis.camp 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I def suffer from the “took 100 times more effort” camp. Yes I could have manually done this, but instead I wrote a script, crazy formulas in Excel, etc etc. It’s really just one part of my brain going “there has to be a better way than manually”, and my hyperfocus saying “hold my beer, it will take twice as long and no one will care about your methodology”.

[–] galaxi@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

You know, if you think about it, there are a ton of inventions that have been created as a means of that same process of experimentation with divergent thinking. Who knows what you could end up finding out :)

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

almost like we can learn what works for us by testing

[–] photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

That's all a part of the process, and sometimes we learn something from it.