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I'd guess the productivity increase comes from the extra hard work that results after the sense of guilt for having wasted so much time surfing. :)

• roc 17y ago
  Maybe I'm alone in this, but if I don't take a 'breather' after a code burst, my quality goes to shit. And seeing as I find it essentially impossible to turn my brain off from work-problems while I'm not strictly 'on the clock', I have zero guilt about time I might spend not doing work 'on the clock'. Less than zero guilt, really. At several jobs I've felt my clients/employers didn't nearly appreciate the 'free overtime' they got.
  • edw519 17y ago
    You are most definitely not alone. You probably just spoke for the majority of us.
  • ShabbyDoo 17y ago
    How much better am I at solving work problems if I have some sense of perspective? Technical perspective, that is. I'm now reverse engineering a grammar to monitor the interactions with a legacy system. ANTLR is cool, but I wouldn't have known about it unless I had spent a lot of time web surfing over the years. How many people do you work with who have no clue about what's going on in their profession except for what they're told by their bosses to work on? Edit: Learning of any sort provides perspective, but it's the technical perspective for which I have the most direct evidence of employer value.