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How long should you work on a problem ?

3 thoughts on “How long should you work on a problem ?”

  1. Florian Habermacher says:

    Thank you, a good reminder for a whole bunch of important points!

  2. Seth says:

    Beautiful, thanks for sharing. I poured 6 months of my life into prototyping new tech, and I was at least able to test some hypotheses that it did not work out. Its on the shelf and people ask why I “give up” after such investment of time.. I’m certainly at peace with letting that go, plenty of other things to work on!

  3. Carl Verret says:

    Really interesting. I wonder if the cost of getting back to a task if you have multiple simultaneous activities can be measured ?