The farther from the public or the money, the more bullshit I want to optimize

I’m noticing that because I work “in the back”, and what I produce doesn’t feel like it will immediately be put in front of a user, it makes me want to optimize things that are more immediately influenced by me.

Workflows mainly.

I’ve been noticing this inclination for a long time and it’s bad.

Sometimes this has come in handy – specifically for some Cursor / Obsidian / Sublime Text related workflows.

But I’d say that 90% of the things I feel the need to optimize are pointless.

They just feel like it’ll be something more robust.

But a good part of me feels that optimizing workflows that don’t affect the public facing product is tinkering and running away from the hard and boring work.