Decades ago, my place of work was the guesthouse of my employer's client. Couple of the client's employees, middle-aged, also used to stay in the same guesthouse. One of them, a Telugu gentleman, was pally with me. He told me that he found it useful to be inefficient in his routing algorithm. When he could do two or more things optimally, he would choose a suboptimal route - so he would end up doing his chores one at a time.
His explanation was that when you have surplus time, you need to find a way to fill it. What better way than to be intentionally inefficient.
I remembered all this when I found myself inadvertently doing what my old friend had suggested.
