For all the hate X gets, you can still find nuggets of good information, Nassim Taleb and the Taleb-adjacent being a prime example. Here is one such post, from Juani Villarejo, shown here in its entirety for those who would rather not go to X to see the original:
Parkinson’s law says that work expands to fill the available time.
Jevons’s paradox states that every increased efficiency, will raise demand rather than decrease it.
And there is a work asymmetry:
Probably there are many more things you dislike doing than things you like.Conclusion: If you allocate time to work, all the time will be filled with tasks to do.
If you make your work more efficient, your time will be filled with more tasks (demands increases).
But by the asymmetry, tasks you dislike doing have more chance to appear than tasks you like.
So when you make your work more efficient your time will always tend to be filled with more tasks you dislike doing.
Corollary: Never ever efficientize (sic!) the things you like doing. Take all the time and enjoy them slowly. They also serve as a defense wall against the things you dislike.
The links and emphasis are mine. For all its pretenses to the contrary X is still a horrible platform for anything longer than 300 or so characters and does not allow for hyperlinks.
A thought for the year, from the aforementioned Prof. Taleb:
Likewise, I don’t read letters and emails longer than a postcard. Writing must have some solemnity. Reading and writing, in the past, were the province of the sacred.
From How I Write, to which I have linked before. Good essays much like good books are worth re-rereading.
Here are a few links to start off 2025 (see if you can spot a pattern):
Happy New Year, dear reader!