How to work an 8-hour day

http://www.philosophicalgeek.com/2008/04/14/how-i-work-8-hour-days/

by r7000 • 18 years ago

29 8 18 years ago

weezus• 18 years ago

"Don't waste time" -- good luck with that one! Might as well rewrite this how-to as "just do it, you lazy bums!"

"How to make a million dollars: 1. Work diligently at something that will make you a million dollars. 2. Just buy a winning lottery ticket."

Admonishments regarding discipline are fairly useless without instruction on how to go about doing so, which is obviously needed if you have to advise someone to be disciplined -- if they already knew how to do it they wouldn't need your how-to.

yters• 18 years ago

"Do the Right Thing."

"Be smart, not dumb."

I think I've just solved the world's problems.

dill_day• 18 years ago

My professor just offered us this piece of advice as we prepare for the final:

When in doubt, put down the right answer.

redorb• 18 years ago

8 hour work days go against my natural time clock. I got my boss to agree to let me work when Im ready (around 9.30am and get off when Im ready 3-5pm) ... and it has been mutually beneficial

shiranaihito• 18 years ago

Sounds like a pretty good deal, especially for US.

On the other hand, living in Europe generally gives you 8-hour workdays by default.

pmorici• 18 years ago

On another note, Desktop Tower Defense is AWSOME!

jcl• 18 years ago

I think the creators of these casual games operate under the theory of relative productivity: You can feel more productive by making everyone you know less productive.

aantix• 18 years ago

"Don't waste time."

You know what I finally did? I installed this cool little Firefox plugin called "Leechblock". I set it up so that I can only visit Hacker News, Digg, Reddit and all other time consuming websites between 8am-9am, noon - 1pm, and 5:30pm on, Monday through Friday https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4476

I have a tendency to read one article which leads to another article which leads me to look something up on Wikipedia which leads me to tell my co-workers about my useless fact finding mission.

Not my browsing habits are restricted to very specific windows and it's really helped productivity wise.

Of course, I could always fire up Sarfari if I really needed to, but I just need to block out that temptation for now.

How to work an 8-hour day

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