[arthur_pryor]

it's a hard thing to keep in mind and execute on, even if you know it consciously.

i think people in general can often have too much of a move fast and break things attitude, and i tend to be the opposite, but my default tendency toward risk aversion can definitely go to far. balance is important.

i think explicitly reminding myself to think about the realistic cost of failure can be helpful. e.g. 15 minutes or an hour starting in an uncertain approach to implementing a software feature, or writing something, or trying to sketch out a proof probably isn't a huge deal. 15 minutes or an hour trying some novel approach to fixing a production bug that's writing bad data when there's some known tedious thing that'd staunch the bleeding in a few minutes, or sinking many hours and/or much money into an uncertain hobby or activity, those might be less worth the risk =) (but i didn't get the impression you were including that sort of thing, just rambling)

[nyellin]

I'm working on a project that lets you script those tedious responses really easily. Would you use something like that?