{"id":27135,"date":"2016-12-15T20:45:21","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T18:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=27135"},"modified":"2016-12-15T20:45:21","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T18:45:21","slug":"is-it-worth-the-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2016\/12\/15\/is-it-worth-the-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Is It Worth the Time?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>I&#8217;ve seen <a href=\"https:\/\/xkcd.com\/1205\/\">this chart<\/a> before, but completely forgot where it was from. \u00a0Tried to find it a couple of times in a hurry of a conversation, but couldn&#8217;t. \u00a0Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/sysadvent.blogspot.com.cy\/2016\/12\/day-15-take-that-vacation-eliminate.html\">this SysAdvent blog post<\/a>, I now have it permanently engraved into the archives of my blog.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/is_it_worth_the_time.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"27136\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2016\/12\/15\/is-it-worth-the-time\/is_it_worth_the_time\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/is_it_worth_the_time.png?fit=571%2C464&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"571,464\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Is it worth the time?\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/is_it_worth_the_time.png?fit=571%2C464&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-27136\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/is_it_worth_the_time-500x406.png?resize=500%2C406&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/is_it_worth_the_time.png?resize=500%2C406&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/is_it_worth_the_time.png?w=571&amp;ssl=1 571w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/xkcd.com\/1205\/\">xkcd<\/a> figured out how long can you work on making a routine task more efficient before you&#8217;re spending more time than you save. \u00a0The crossing of how much time you shave off and how often you do the task gets progressively less obvious when move from the top left corner of this char to the bottom right corner.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>I&#8217;ve seen this chart before, but completely forgot where it was from. \u00a0Tried to find it a couple of times in a hurry of a conversation, but couldn&#8217;t. \u00a0Thanks to this SysAdvent blog post, I now have it permanently engraved into the archives of my blog. xkcd figured out how long can you work on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2016\/12\/15\/is-it-worth-the-time\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is It Worth the Time?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Is It Worth the Time? 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