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Tag: productivity
i picked a mac as my new workhorse, so i will be curious to see whether i drink the koolaid, or whether eric’s got it right
My main cause for regret is the overall usability of the OS. There are 3 main issues here. The lack of keyboard access to commands, the antiquated menu bar and the MDI.
An anti-anticlutter movement is afoot, one that says yes to mess and urges you to embrace your disorder. Studies are piling up that show that messy desks are the vivid signatures of people with creative, limber minds (who reap higher salaries than those with neat “office landscapes”) and that messy closet owners are probably better parents and nicer and cooler than their tidier counterparts. It’s a movement that confirms what you have known, deep down, all along: really neat people are not avatars of the good life; they are humorless and inflexible prigs, and have way too much time on their hands.
heh. my solution: less belongings. and of course google flat, someday 😉
the new cultural icon of those wanting to appear busy (and important). look for more uptake in middle management in 2007
i sense i will use quite a few of those
and they still call ADHD a disease when it is in fact the sign of our times. when was the last time you were in the zone?
We found the version control, collaboration and invite system outweighed the limited feature set
disruptive innovation: online office does not have to be as good as offline to win.
Mr. Chen’s concept hinges on users unknowingly setting their own difficulty level. “Not with an option box that says easy, medium and hard. I want the player to control it subconsciously, based on what they’re doing.” In the face of a frustrating enemy, players are free to avoid the fight and search for more food, evolving into a more potent form. (The first squid-like enemy, encountered at level 5, was made excessively difficult on purpose to see if players would instinctually flee from an unfair fight.)
flow: the exhilarating sense of engagement we get when we’re wrapped up in a task that is perfectly matched to our skills. If it’s too easy, we get bored; too hard, we get frustrated. But hitting the precise mid-point puts us in “the zone” of flow.
So that led me to think a little deeper on why in the first place I did not firstly find more options and secondly something more ready for large scale use. Let me try to explain why
- Mind mapping is a very nascent concept without any widespread acceptance as a better tool for several activities that we do. There also seems to be no agreement on the fact that it would be tool for productivity improvements.
- Point #1 could either be seen as a opportunity or as a hurdle. Looking at the scenario it appears that people look at it as more of a hurdle than any opportunity
- Lack of standardization in creating and saving maps. If a company comes up with this offering but I cant move a map created there into another website or product the acceptance of this will be limited
i wanted this in 2002. still nothing. if mindmanager had a better web story, i might upgrade, even.
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Big Consulting Company calls up Big Oil Company. “Hey, do you guys need help being more productive developing software?”
Big Oil Company says, “Yeah, sure, whatever, we’ll buy anything,” and they buy a $1M software productivity consulting deal.
The consulting company comes on site, measures a bunch of bogus things like Lines of Code Per Developer, or, if they’re really fancy shmancy, Number of Function Points Per Programmer Per Day. Then they tell the oil company, “Gosh, you’re only getting 73.844% productivity. Pay us another $2M and we’ll double your productivity.”
Oil company pays the $2m.
Consulting company comes in, gets all the programmers in a room, tells them all about Function Points and stuff, and how productivity is REALLY IMPORTANT.
Programmers remember that scene from Office Space where Bob and Bob, the consultants, recommended all the people to get fired.
Programmers start writing a heck of a lot more function points. For example you can triple the number of function points in your code simply by round tripping everything through an XML file. Big waste of time, prone to bugs, does nothing, but each file you touch adds a function point. W00t!
Consulting company comes back, measures again, and lo and behold, with all the round trips through XML the function point count is up drastically. Consultant announces that Oil Company is now at 151.29% productivity. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 