Hey, Nick, I have a very slow pace of work. I've seen you do some work in an hour that took me like four hours to complete. How can I boost my pace? I don't have consistency problems, but just that my pace is slow and I want to be quick like you.

Yeah, I've been working on computers since I was about four, when my dad had a desktop tower and I started playing flash games on Newgrounds. My computer literacy is very high because I grew up with a screen, so I'm naturally faster than most people, and that's okay. For boosting pace, I recommend doing an audit: if you spend about 10 hours on your computer, check which applications you have open (using Task Manager or similar) and see where you spend most of your time. Identify the top three or four apps that account for about 90% of your usage, then learn every keyboard shortcut you could possibly want for those apps. Learning those shortcuts takes about an hour (there are really only five or ten most-used shortcuts per platform), and after that, the rest of your work will be roughly a time-and-a-half faster. Another quick recommendation: I prefer working on a laptop because my fingers stay on the home row (ASDF JKL;) and my thumb can stay on the trackpad, so I don't have to move my hand to a mouse. This setup is at least a time-and-a-half more efficient than constantly moving back and forth to a mouse, which wastes time each time you shift hands. It's probably better for your wrists too, but I don't worry about it. Beyond those, learn some problem‑solving heuristics—simple, fast ways to achieve the 80/20 result in most tasks. Examples: lower your bar for certainty, lower your bar for perfection, and use simple tools whenever possible instead of more complicated ones that only give marginal accuracy gains. For instance, I could record high‑quality OBS videos for every client delivery, but a Loom video is good enough and saves me about ten minutes each time.