Increasing Productivity is a Load of Bullshit

Re:Increasing Productivity is a Load of Bullshit by yummyfajitas on Sunday October 07, 2012 @11:01AM (#4623442)

I don't think it's necessarily a bad signal. Some people are more productive when they force themselves to devote N hours of time to a particular topic.

I do it myself sometimes - I decide I'll devote at least 4 hours to $BORING_BUT_NECESSARY_AND_UNENDING_TASK, and then do it and get it done. At my current job, this was (until very recently) searching our logs for slow queries and fixing them.

Different people have different productivity strategies. Being "in the zone" is an effective one, but it's hardly the only one.

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Re:Increasing Productivity is a Load of Bullshit by dasil003 on Sunday October 07, 2012 @01:16PM (#4623753)

Let me clarify. I meant startup management thinking, "what should our work hour policy be?"

Personally yes, I have become much more efficient since having a kid and add hard timeboxing to my schedule.

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