Lip balms here usually have a cap that you just pull to open, and that’s what I had been doing with the latest one I bought. Several times in the several weeks since I first opened it, I thought it’s really too hard an action. Today, maybe because I’m sick and weaker, I stopped to consider my repeated internal criticism and easily screwed the cap off.

So, I ask all of you to tell me of a moment when you realized that hammering a problem was not the best solution.

  • blindsight@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    8 months ago

    I worry that I do this in my Excel sheets.

    I’ve figured out a set of formulas to filter sheets by specific content, identifying the rows using IFs, then using INDIRECTs to pull the values. I should probably just be using Excel’s integrated filtering tool, but I haven’t bothered figuring out if you can do complex filters with formulas, and with how easy it is to maintain going forward.

    So I just keep hammering away, cluttering my spreadsheets with lots of “helper” columns to slowly filter down my results one layer at a time.

    Or, really, I should probably be using databases for most of these things.