Tom DeMarco's books are awesome. Slack really opened my mind, instead of optimizing every waking hour, I used a "structured procrastination" approach in getting things done.
Structured procrastination?
Is that where you give yourself x minutes to surf the web or whatever, but when the timer goes off, you go back to work, or is it something else?
Re:Be smarter at work, slack off
by kirubakaran on Thursday May 01, 2008 @02:10PM
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http://www.structuredprocrastination.com/
(using your tendency to procrastinate to work for you)
Ironically, he mentioned that his experience at Google did NOT typify the mentality of leaving space to maneuver. My experience there corroborates.