It’s funny that a fair few ways of procrastinating were meant to be tools that made us more ‘efficient’ at gathering information or connecting with each other.
100 Views!
October 27, 2009
The Graph Blog had it 100th view today, 5 days before its target (and reasonably quick for a new blog). Next benchmark 500!
Use of Instant Messenger
October 26, 2009
I’ve had ‘meetings’ over MSN that went for three times as long as they would have had we met face to face.
The Mythical Man Month
October 25, 2009
Adding extra people to a project doesn’t necessarily make the project run any faster (especially towards the end of the project). The cost of communication between team members eventually exceeds the benefit gained by new team members.
Insomnia
October 24, 2009
Whenever I need sleep to make sure I am ready for tomorrow, I often find it hard to sleep. Perhaps my brain is thinking too much about whatever reason it is I need to sleep…
Broken Windows
October 23, 2009
There was an experiment done a while back where a car was left unattended in a dangerous neighborhood. The car stayed there for days before anyone touched it. Then they broke a single window and within hours the car had been stripped bare.
Whenever you want to maintain a high standard of quality in something, you have to quickly crack down on every small error. Otherwise you’ll quickly have systematic problems.
Phone calls when you aren’t around
October 22, 2009
At work we always get more calls for Person X when they are in a meeting or out for lunch. It makes me wonder if there is a secret web cam set up in the office and that the general population is all in on a big prank against us.
Popularity on Facebook
October 21, 2009
I am always skeptical of people on Facebook with more than 300 friends.
Godwin’s Law
October 20, 2009
“As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1.” – Mike Godwin
