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I'm with you all the way! I hear people talk about optimizing one's day to be more productive and "get more done in your day" so often...but honestly, between
by mxuribe 9y ago
I'm with you all the way!
I hear people talk about optimizing one's day to be more productive and "get more done in your day" so often...but honestly, between work, family responsibilities, working out a little in the gym, getting involved in side projects (either "working on the car", or working on side dev project), maybe some civic community involvement, social visits (the occasional beer with a buddy), etc...it just feels like something has to give...and in my case, its the number of hours of sleep.
Perhaps i'm naive or too idealistic, but will the coming hordes of robots and associated automation help society by giving us all more time to ourselves - either for more/appropriate hours of sleep, or to spend on the activities i noted above? Or...maybe society - or should i say our capitalistic society - will "see" the unused bandwidth of our days made available by these robots, and insert more commitments to "fill our days"?
Sorry, i didn't get enough sleep last night, so am a little cranky. ;-)
- nradov 9y agoIncreased automation allows for more leisure time for those who own the robots.
- randcraw 9y agoAnd the unemployed...
- tzakrajs 9y ago"leisure time"
- mrhappyunhappy 9y agoI'm in a constant state of leisure ;)
- foobarian 9y agoIn my case, it's the exercise :-)
- Delmania 9y agoAutomation never results in more leisure. It results in more specialized work and increased workloads. The sentiment expressed in the first line is why I intend to stay working remotely for as long as possible. I hated the fact I saw a drab grey cubicle farm more than my house and family.
- stale2002 9y agoAutomation has been happening for the last century. And what has happened to work weeks/hours? Oh thats right, they went drastically down.
- weirdstuff 9y agoToo glib; they've been holding pretty steady at 8 hours, mainly due to regulation. Other work has increased hours, such as in many areas of health care, for example. Many folks also patch together multiple jobs in order to achieve a livable income and can work upwards of 12-16 hour days. I know several, personally. Keynes predicted we'd be down to 3 or 4 hours a day by now, but that never happened due (partly) to the ever-increasing competitive ability/imposition that technology allows managers and shareholders to impose on labor in an effort to maximize economic potential and productivity.
- selectodude 9y agoHow many hours do people work, really, though. If management became more lenient of people going home when the day's work is over, I imagine we would be a lot closer to 4hrs/day.
- xyrnoble 9y agoIf my workplace announced that policy I'd just assume they wanted to know how productive I actually was. I would leave on time to signal that I had an appropriate workload.
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- nroach 9y agoBear in mind that we segment our activity more in "modern" society. For example, in agrarian societies you didn't need to carve out time for exercise. Work was exercise. You also didn't need to carve out time for child care, because children worked alongside adults much of the time. And commuting wasn't really an issue when workplaces and residences were in the same community with minimal geographic separation. It's our societal lifestyle that has demanded separate time for separate activities, resulting in a need for a greater than 24-hour day.
- pavel_lishin 9y agoOnce they got old enough, sure. Until then, women typically took care of them. Good luck working alongside an 18 month old.
- mncharity 9y agoYeah, it's like trying to work in an open office, with people repeatedly stopping by with problems, and springing surprise meetings, and... well, maybe not quite that bad? :)
- pavel_lishin 9y agoI'm not sure what's scarier: a coworker stopping by saying, "hey, the PROD-DB-1 server has been down for four hours" or your four year old stopping by and saying, "there's an oops in the kitchen."
- gebeeson 9y agoIf you train the four year old correctly you might even get "there's an oops on the PROD-DB-1 server". That would be more than I get from some of my adult co-workers.
- pavel_lishin 9y agoA friend of mine runs a rural radio-based ISP, while raising... four? kids or so. It's entirely possible that some of his downtime was caused by someone accidentally spilling juice into something and letting the magic smoke out, but I've never asked.
- photonios 9y agoI also used to feel this way. What worked for me is to not to do some of these things. For example, I got a robot vacuum cleaner and a robot mop. For any additional cleaning, I have a cleaning lady that comes every once in a while. This saves me a couple of hours of cleaning each month. If the car breaks, or something needs to be done around the house, I hire someone to do it. Groceries are delivered according to a schedule. Saves me a couple of hours of running around the supermakt. I am not saying this works for everyone. It works for me. Labour cost are so low here, and salaries in IT are so high that it is totally worth paying someone to do some things. As for commuting, I picked a job that is not too far away and is extremely flexible when it comes to when I am at the office. This allows me to only travel to the office at hours at which traffic is decent. At the worst hours, it can take 45min to get to my office. If I avoid those hours, I can be there in 15 min.
- gcvbvghb 9y ago> Labour cost are so low here, and salaries in IT are so high Where’s this magical place?
- alexseman 9y agoI would bet Eastern Europe, maybe Romania.
- krageon 9y agoA good chunk of his advice is applicable even in moderately high-cost labour countries such as Germany or the Netherlands.
- _Tev 9y agoCentral / Eastern Europe. And I heard similar things about south and east of Asia
- photonios 9y agoCluj-Napoca, Romania. However, I am from the Netherlands where the same advice applied a couple of years back.