RE: Time management

You cannot live anyone else's life.  Don't try, don't judge.

For every person that does something wrong there is a person that does
something right and their roles may reverse any minute.

We should accept the wealth of differences even if we don't understand what
these differences are, so be it.

Stefan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Laurent Bossavit <laurent-lQPDYUS/wmpWk0Htik3J/[email protected]>
> [mailto:laurent-lQPDYUS/wmpWk0Htik3J/[email protected]]
> Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 9:57 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [XC] Time management
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> 
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