{"id":774,"date":"2026-08-05T06:50:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T06:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2026\/08\/05\/are-you-good-at-mowing-lawns\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T06:50:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T06:50:23","slug":"are-you-good-at-mowing-lawns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2026\/08\/05\/are-you-good-at-mowing-lawns\/","title":{"rendered":"Are You Good at Mowing Lawns?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>So it\u2019s not about thinking more or faster, but when thinking happens. That\u2019s what a good heuristic does: it spends your attention on the decisions that matter and nothing on the ones that don\u2019t.<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/kottke.org\/26\/08\/are-you-good-at-mowing-lawns\">kottke.org\/26\/08\/are-you-good-at-mowing-lawns<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it\u2019s not about thinking more or faster, but when thinking happens. That\u2019s what a good heuristic does: it spends your attention on the decisions that matter and nothing on the ones that don\u2019t. \u2014 Read on kottke.org\/26\/08\/are-you-good-at-mowing-lawns<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,7],"class_list":["post-774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-attention","tag-consciousness"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}