Don't spend time thinking about the boring things.

Boring things here means, "unsurprising", which means "your mental model is sufficiently calibrated to correctly predict its output in practice"

For boring things, automate them. Get to good enough and don't overthink it.

Distilling useful Infrastructure makes it so the creative effort doesn't have to be wasted on routinized things.

Spend most of your time thinking about interesting things.