Comments on: Musing about work patterns and wasting time http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/09/05/musing-about-work-patterns-and-wasting-time/ a blog about information Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:37:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: carrierdetect.com » The online drift and minding your own business http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/09/05/musing-about-work-patterns-and-wasting-time/comment-page-1/#comment-188939 carrierdetect.com » The online drift and minding your own business Sun, 16 Sep 2007 16:40:05 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/09/05/musing-about-work-patterns-and-wasting-time/#comment-188939 [...] In addition some comfort has been afforded through learning of the Situationist action of the dérive, and also in part via a recent post on JP’s blog about work patterns and wasting time. [...] [...] In addition some comfort has been afforded through learning of the Situationist action of the dérive, and also in part via a recent post on JP’s blog about work patterns and wasting time. [...]

]]> By: Simon Carswell http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/09/05/musing-about-work-patterns-and-wasting-time/comment-page-1/#comment-188865 Simon Carswell Sun, 16 Sep 2007 11:09:18 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/09/05/musing-about-work-patterns-and-wasting-time/#comment-188865 I agree that results achieved rather than time spent on a task should be the test of effectiveness for a knowledge worker, at least in theory; but in hierarchical organisations, especially large ones, the goals are so often too unclear for this to work. What then happens is everyone falls back on the 'hours at the desk' test. Because this is no longer relevant, many knowledge workers end up pretending to work, as per this rather good article in The Times: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/career_and_jobs/article2456531.ece I agree that results achieved rather than time spent on a task should be the test of effectiveness for a knowledge worker, at least in theory; but in hierarchical organisations, especially large ones, the goals are so often too unclear for this to work. What then happens is everyone falls back on the ‘hours at the desk’ test. Because this is no longer relevant, many knowledge workers end up pretending to work, as per this rather good article in The Times:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/career_and_jobs/article2456531.ece

]]> By: mobmash blog » Blog Archive » links for 2007-09-07 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/09/05/musing-about-work-patterns-and-wasting-time/comment-page-1/#comment-184687 mobmash blog » Blog Archive » links for 2007-09-07 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 00:27:03 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/09/05/musing-about-work-patterns-and-wasting-time/#comment-184687 [...] Musing about work patterns and wasting time | confused of calcutta (tags: work knowledge future life) [...] [...] Musing about work patterns and wasting time | confused of calcutta (tags: work knowledge future life) [...]

]]> By: Stephen Smoliar http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/09/05/musing-about-work-patterns-and-wasting-time/comment-page-1/#comment-184485 Stephen Smoliar Thu, 06 Sep 2007 15:36:20 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/09/05/musing-about-work-patterns-and-wasting-time/#comment-184485 The Picasso story may be apocryphal but is certainly often repeated. I have a slightly more analytic version that I found myself writing in an effort to undo the mythology about Rachmaninoff's third piano concerto that has been induced by SHINE. Readers may find it an interesting sidebar about "knowledge work." http://therehearsalstudio.blogspot.com/2007/07/taming-rachmaninoffs-monster.html The Picasso story may be apocryphal but is certainly often repeated. I have a slightly more analytic version that I found myself writing in an effort to undo the mythology about Rachmaninoff’s third piano concerto that has been induced by SHINE. Readers may find it an interesting sidebar about “knowledge work.”

http://therehearsalstudio.blogspot.com/2007/07/taming-rachmaninoffs-monster.html

]]> By: Mario Ruiz http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/09/05/musing-about-work-patterns-and-wasting-time/comment-page-1/#comment-184387 Mario Ruiz Thu, 06 Sep 2007 11:01:20 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/09/05/musing-about-work-patterns-and-wasting-time/#comment-184387 Dear JP, Picasso was a genius in many aspects of his life. I personally respect most of his work. He has another story about hard-work: When a journalist asked him if the muses paint for him, he replied, "yes, but I have to be with the brush every day waiting for them." Experts are like artist, we pay them for the vision they have and for the talent to make it real. We cannot count this in seconds or meters. Mario Ruiz www.oursheet.com Dear JP,

Picasso was a genius in many aspects of his life. I personally respect most of his work. He has another story about hard-work:

When a journalist asked him if the muses paint for him, he replied, “yes, but I have to be with the brush every day waiting for them.”

Experts are like artist, we pay them for the vision they have and for the talent to make it real. We cannot count this in seconds or meters.

Mario Ruiz
http://www.oursheet.com

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