Stop being a productivity nerd, and chill out

Re:Stop being a productivity nerd, and chill out by mikemainguy on Tuesday December 22, 2009 @11:01AM (#1010107)

Spoken like a young creative (at a startup? in the valley?) who is only responsible to himself. Once you need to work as part of a team, time management becomes important because you have to manage the interruptions + coordination with other people who depend on each other to be productive.

Yes, however, time management and team coordination do add overhead. Teams, however are much more scaleable that individuals. In addition, they are also fault tolerant.

Put in hacker terms... a great programmer is an superfast solid state drive, whereas a team is a raid 6 array with a bunch of disks that are slower and of varying speeds.

Overall, the solid state disk might individually perform better (and possibly be cheaper), but generally most people tend to agree the RAID array is a better way to go if you can afford it.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Stop being a productivity nerd, and chill out by feint on Tuesday December 22, 2009 @11:36PM (#1011563)

yes, im young and possibly creative (debatable) and do work at a startup...but unfortunately not in the vallley.

I do manage a team (of 8) very creating and talented developers and designers. I don't force my ideas on them - in fact i let them work however and whenever they want.

The reason why I don't like time management - it focuses on time rather than result. Tim Ferriss explains this much better than me. 80% of the work you do will only result in 20% of the product. Therefore most of your time is actually wasted. To fix this, one needs to focus on results and efficiency rather than time. Pick the three most important tasks (which more often than not aren't the most urgent, suprisingly) and tackle those.

[ Parent | on HN ]