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> The Great Dissipation. One of the shocks about entering the world of work was how little I often got done in any given day because I was in a meeting or had
by MattGaiser 5y ago
> The Great Dissipation.
One of the shocks about entering the world of work was how little I often got done in any given day because I was in a meeting or had to deal with some form or was waiting on permission or many other things.
I have had whole days disappear with nothing much to show for them at the end. I am sure I am not the only one. And even though it is almost assuredly known that this happens, nobody seems to care.
- dazc 5y agoI had a job once where I did nothing except for when I would find things to do in order to quell the boredom. When I tell people this they are usually envious but I always say 'be careful what you wish for'. For me it was the most miserable period of my life. I've had depression and been homeless - that job was worse.
- BeetleB 5y agoAgreed. I once had a job like this - the first so many months was little to no work, because of external inefficiencies. Nice in the beginning - I used the time to learn cool stuff (Emacs, etc). But after a number of months you feel like you were put on this Earth to do something useful, and you start looking for jobs.
- satyrnein 5y agoMeanwhile, one of the great shocks that I experienced when becoming a manager was that I had no better solution to keeping a large group of people aligned and unblocked than a bunch of meetings. Sure, I tinkered around the edges a bit, but it's not fundamentally different. Solutions welcome!
- strictfp 5y agoMaintain a backlog for them, at least an idea backlog
- pas 5y ago> a large group of people aligned and unblocked than a bunch of meetings Could you explain this a bit? Why weren't the interested parties talking to each other in smaller groups? Wasn't there a shared base vision? What caused the blocks? What caused the decoherence of alignments? Also, how many meetings? How many people? Thanks!