Time management
"Laurent Bossavit <laurent-lQPDYUS/wmpWk0Htik3J/[email protected]>" <laurent-lQPDYUS/wmpWk0Htik3J/[email protected]>
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Bill: > Perhaps you meant to ask / learn ... OK, let's phrase it that way. I sense a lot of passion in this topic, which tells me it is one that will elicit fruitful conflict. I sense that I'm going to be the sand in the oyster with this one, so let me state beforehand that any criticism of a person's opinions that I might offer is not intended as a criticism of the person. Now, to my way of seeing, free time - time with the family, time to read, time to have fun, time to see people who call me up and suggest lunch - is a key part of becoming a better programmer. As a programmer the "people systems" I deal with are typically small, from one to a few people. I would assume that a person dealing with more complex people systems (such as that 4000 person company) need *more*, not less, free time to recharge. I would assume that at higher levels of pay and responsibility, one has to invest *more*, not less, time in learning. As I write about these topics there's a little tune playing in my head, that I just can't shake loose. It goes "Enron. France Telecom. WorldCom. Vivendi..." There's a little subtheme in there about a few employers of mine who folded, including one boss to whom I lent copies of Brooks' "The Mythical Man-Month" and Crosby's "Quality is Free" and who returned them to me unread a few weeks later because "he didn't have free time". Presumably the people we are speaking about here have considered such issues, and have made enlightened choices. There must therefore be some additional information which I lack, or a model of the world different from mine. Please tell me more about these discrepancies. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Get 128 Bit SSL Encryption! http://us.click.yahoo.com/CBxunD/vN2EAA/xGHJAA/NhFolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: extremecustomering-unsubscribe-hHKSG33TihhbjbujkaE4pw@public.gmane.org Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/