Philosophy
Choosing multi-beneficial actions
Don’t just choose any action, shape it to be beneficial in multiple, unrelated ways.
One thing I’ve noticed lately is that if you can find several unrelated benefits to an action, it is usually a very good choice. Additionally, I’ve also noted that it is relatively easy to shape your actions to have these unrelated benefits. This probably sounds quite abstract right now, so I’ll start off with some examples. Say you are developing a web app. It is likely that you have several ideas of what to make and how to make it. Which option should you choose? Benefits could include:
- Creating something other people find enjoyable and/or useful
- Creating something you find enjoyable and/or useful
- Learning a new programming language, framework or technique
- Potentially generating income
- Being challenged with and solving difficult problems
Now, these are not benefits that all web apps you’ll make will have, but you could select the how and the what that have many of these benefits. For instance, if you make a simple app that you yourself have no use for with the frameworks you already know and the same techniques you’ve always used but it could…
