Math Overflow users resolve PhD thesis crisis

Re:Math Overflow users resolve PhD thesis crisis by JamesBarney on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @05:20PM (#24054616)

Hmm this is different than my experience when my co workers had kids. Usually their productivity dropped due to being sleep deprived and not having the time on nights and weekends to come up to speed on any new technology.

Not that I minded, just saying that time constraints and sleep deprivation seemed to have the effect you'd except from them.

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Re:Math Overflow users resolve PhD thesis crisis by iateanapple on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @06:26PM (#24055162)

> Usually their productivity dropped due to being sleep deprived

High levels of sleep deprivation is only common for the first few months.

> not having the time on nights and weekends to come up to speed on any new technology.

This tends to be a problem on teams that don’t properly evaluate costs of new technology and so churn like crazy for very minor productivity increases.

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Re:Math Overflow users resolve PhD thesis crisis by quickthrower2 on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @07:24PM (#24055580)

What's your productivity measure?

"I won't do that" can be worth $100k.

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Re:Math Overflow users resolve PhD thesis crisis by keithnz on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @06:39PM (#24055277)

it wasn't about coworkers.... when people are working they often get paid the same no matter what their productivity is, so the motivations are different

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Re:Math Overflow users resolve PhD thesis crisis by hprotagonist on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @06:41PM (#24055290)

grad students and coworkers have very different priorities.

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Re:Math Overflow users resolve PhD thesis crisis by alfonsodev on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @06:19PM (#24055104)

productivity at work is harder to measure than academic achievements, also different setup and motivations in play.

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