Find a business problem in your job that requires information to get into the hands of many people but require tweaks between them. i.e. person X needs to know A but person Y needs to know B.

Read up the section on parameterized reports and realize you can do the work of dozens .

https://bookdown.org/yihui/rmarkdown/parameterized-reports.h...

rmarkdown is insanely effective at getting information out of your hands and into stakeholders repeatedly and in an visually appealing way. When you combine that with your domain knowledge, your value to your company will increase.

> Read up the section on parameterized reports and realize you can do the work of dozens.

This was the killer (visual) feature in LyX when I used it to author LaTeX documents. Great to hear rmarkdown has similar support.

It boggles my mind that in 2021 IPython/Jupyter notebooks _still_ don't have inline code evaluation or sensible parameterization without using extensions.

I could imagine the time invested on making the same report in another language takes 3x.

Something I find that people don't appreciate about better tools is that it's not just about going faster, it's about going farther.

There's a whole bunch of stuff you can do by hand. But if you do it by hand, you'll compromise your sense of satisficing. It amazes me how often the 'work harder' crowd doesn't reconcile the two.

If you can quickly and reliably figure out we're spending $100k a month, you get a raise. If you can figure out why it's $100k instead of $80k, you might be up for a promotion.