Sorting | Seth’s Weblog

A stunning quantity of our time is spent sorting issues to create worth.

They kind the rotten cranberries from the nice ones to make sure that the bag on the market is price shopping for. And we kind the flicks price watching, the bargains price pursuing and the information price studying. Editors, gold miners and detectives are principally within the sorting enterprise.

Organized training makes use of sorting each as a motivation instrument and a means to make sure that the graduates it produces meet spec.

Not solely can we kind, we are sometimes sorted.

Freelancers and job seekers are sorted into teams, and one of the best ones kind their potential purchasers and purchasers earlier than losing their time.

Lazy sorting is distracting, costly and infrequently poisonous. Counting on false proxies, simply measured however irrelevant, is a standard sorting lure.

And getting higher at sorting may be the one only enchancment we are able to make in our work. It’s not troublesome to enhance if we concentrate on it.

February 4, 2026