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There’s a difference between working hard and working smart. One is the brute force solution. The other uses a heuristic to narrow the solution space.
by ShabbosGoy 9y ago
There’s a difference between working hard and working smart. One is the brute force solution. The other uses a heuristic to narrow the solution space.
- emodendroket 9y agoI think the point here is that in white-collar workplaces long hours are mostly an abstract way of signaling that you take the job seriously, not exhausting in the way that long hours in a job demanding physical labor would be.
- gbacon 9y agoThere are different kinds of tired — physically exhausted, brain-fried, and emotionally spent — but I’m not making any sort of comparison between them.
- emodendroket 9y agoYeah, but the guy who always stays after at work, how much of his time is work and how much of it is browsing Reddit?
- gbacon 9y agoFair question. Is that person slacking, projecting, coping, or percolating?
- ShabbosGoy 9y agoThey’re signaling to management. Plain and simple.