The Factorio Mindset⁠↗

This metagame ends up giving players the habit of looking at every situation by asking: what’s the best way to automate this, and what dependencies of other automations are threatened if I do? This is, for developers and for the many, many people whose jobs will involve more software development over time, a very good habit indeed. I tried to crank through some emails right after playing Factorio one time, and realized⁠—I urgently need to write some email snippets. This just can’t be allowed to exist in an un-automated state! But if I’m going to use a lot of email snippets, I need a consistent way to manage them lest I end up with five different iterations on “Yes, let’s talk about that; here’s my Calendly.”