How many answers per day?

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A common framing among software engineers working on a codebase is the “feedback loop”–what’s the process of testing whether your change to the code causes the behavior you desire, and whether it breaks anything?

This basically maps over to: “how many questions can I ask my system in a day?”

There’s different ways to influence this speed: hardware, technique, investing time in improving the support around the feedback loop…

More interesting, though, is considering how this same framing fits for the rest of your life and career. Learning and habit formation depend on short feedback loops–it’s hard to lose weight because food tastes good now, but your noticing your body feeling lighter could take months.

For the things you care about, how many questions can you ask each day? And how can you raise that number?

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