> take what could be summarized in a sentence or two and spend 5+ minutes describing it Don't hate the player, hate the game. I had a job that required weekly

> take what could be summarized in a sentence or two and spend 5+ minutes describing it Don't hate the player, hate the game. I had a job that required weekly status updates by e-mail (cc-ed to the entire team for some reason). My updates went on for pages. If somebody asked me to look at something and it took more than 10 minutes, that went on my status report: "Worked with so-and-so to do such-and-such"). My boss confided in me that could tell what I was doing and he appreciated it. Why? Because he summarized those statuses into a big, long (the longer the better) update e-mail to his boss. If you incentivize stupidity, you're going to get stupidity, even from smart people. Especially from smart people.