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I disagree about teaching. Public school teachers are overworked, tired and do a crummy job. I'd rather have 7 hours of Khan Academy videos and 1 hour of solid

• varjag 10y ago
  There's an upper bound to how efficiently say elementary school kids can learn unsupervised, and if you discard the outliers it's not very impressive. School teachers are not just doing busywork sent down by bureaucrats; much of it is still teaching in the class, checking student's progress, grading the homework and so on. As to the working in bursts I used to think of it as a manifestation of creativity and talent in heroic stunts. Years later I see it differently: if you do one hour of actual work in a week, you are procrastinating/slacking for the other 39 hours. Even, predictable pace of work is a hallmark of professionalism. At least now I try hard to keep my progress steady and predictable.
  • MawNicker 10y ago
    > Even, predictable pace of work is a hallmark of professionalism. You are making an insestuous appeal to tradition while we discuss the merits of exactly that tradition.
    • varjag 10y ago
      Guess you can view it that way, although I meant that "it's a net positive". Sure makes estimation easier, and gives you higher overall productivity. Consider that if your normal, sustained rate hour only 1/20th as productive as the epic bursts one, you still end up being twice as productive throughout the 40 hour work week. No point doing marathon as a series of sprints.