Also, I think that a lot of grad students, myself included, hesitate to delegate to peers and senior people, not wanting to take up their time. The ‘playing nice’ point reminded me of a recent experience: I wrote some code for a co-author that collated a large number of unwieldy data files from a sound analysis program. This took me a few hours, and saved my co-author weeks. The co-author told their partner, who told a colleague at their university who had a similar problem, who contacted me and asked if I would be willing to help them. It took me another few hours to adjust the code for their problem, and apparently allowed them to do in hours what would have otherwise taken months to do by hand. The feeling of having really helped someone out (and having fun playing around with coding, which I am still pretty new at), was a big reward in itself for me. Your post reminded me that it can be WAY more efficient to ask someone than struggle through trying to do every single thing yourself, and the person you ask might even enjoy the task that’s been delegated to them, and the opportunity to be useful. I need to remember this!