Omar Shahine recently posted an inspiring ode to laziness:
This is a companion discussion topic for the original blog entry at: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2005/03/get-me-the-laziest-people-money-can-buy.html
This is a companion discussion topic for the original blog entry at: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2005/03/get-me-the-laziest-people-money-can-buy.html
re: #1. Deadlines often have the effect of “helping” identify key goals. Samuel Johnson: “Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.”
And as for why someone would have IM on at work, I’m baffled. As if the ordinary interruptions weren’t enough.
W/R/T IM at work, I was skeptical too. But it is nice for little one-off questions people have during the day. Within reason. I definitely prefer IM to phone calls or emails for small, straightforward questions that don’t require a lot of back-and-forth brainstorming.
As with email, the trick is knowing when to stop using it and escalate to another, more appropriate communication method.
This is precisely why we need a enterprise version of twitter. Something that has the immediacy of IM, but also not the same level of intrusion.
As with any technology, it will take a few years before it gets adopted within large companies.
Funny how this conversation aged. Now we have Slack and Microsoft Teams and 100’s of IM tools that we use everyday lol
2 Likes
And “Laconica” was a reference to
There’s also Mastodon, though I am unclear how much traction that’s getting
1 Like