This is the classic paper on work and schedule. It is a known fact that work will expands to fill up its allocated time. Somehow our management take it one step further, thinking work can also be squeezed into a unrealistically tight schedule.
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Filing cabinet for a digitized world.
FINA Proposes Banning High-Tech Swim Suits
Maybe FINA should simply ban swim suits, everyone has to swim naked. Sport without technology innovation is a dead end. What’s so glorious about pushing the limit of human boby? No matter how fast a man can swim, he can’t be faster than a fish or a speedboat.
Efficiency and beyond
Is it the death of efficient market hypothesis, or are we just missing some human variables from the equations?
The other-worldly philosophers
The lefties always love trashing economy theories being the slave of the all evil capitalism. Maybe this article from the Economist, the stronghold from the right, would deliver debate ammo to the lefties, if they choose to misinterpret it for their convenience.
Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule
I am not productive if I don’t get at least half of a day of time. Manager schedule runs only hourly basis, but I doubt how much productivity are those meetings other than showing your presence. If a manager need to do some strategy thinking, he still have to block off half a day.