Comments on: Productivity measure http://www.riondabsd.net/2009/03/25/productivity-measure/ A hard working wasp in the big garden of the Internet Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:20:36 +0200 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: mikeg http://www.riondabsd.net/2009/03/25/productivity-measure/comment-page-1/#comment-56876 mikeg Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:58:00 +0000 http://www.riondabsd.net/?p=2064#comment-56876 Don't know about grad students, but I find the more notes/sheets of legal pad I burn off designing a system the better the end product turns out. Probably has something to do with Michael's creativity hypothesis and leads to a possible corollary law: Units of (usable) work produced today is proportional to number of sheets discarded previously, and inversely proportional to number of sheets discarded today? (This of course ignores the effect of having fun with blogs and twitter when I'm supposed to be writing site operations manuals for my underlings... ;) Don’t know about grad students, but I find the more notes/sheets of legal pad I burn off designing a system the better the end product turns out.

Probably has something to do with Michael’s creativity hypothesis and leads to a possible corollary law:

Units of (usable) work produced today is proportional to number of sheets discarded previously, and inversely proportional to number of sheets discarded today?

(This of course ignores the effect of having fun with blogs and twitter when I’m supposed to be writing site operations manuals for my underlings… ;)

]]> By: Matteo http://www.riondabsd.net/2009/03/25/productivity-measure/comment-page-1/#comment-56874 Matteo Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:30:09 +0000 http://www.riondabsd.net/?p=2064#comment-56874 I like your hypothesis, Michael! Thanks! I like your hypothesis, Michael! Thanks!

]]> By: Michael Ekstrand http://www.riondabsd.net/2009/03/25/productivity-measure/comment-page-1/#comment-56873 Michael Ekstrand Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:16:09 +0000 http://www.riondabsd.net/?p=2064#comment-56873 Potential alternative hypothesis: throwing away lots of sheets indicates high creativity. Perhaps not as directed or focused, but one of them may yield something someone only discarding 1/day wouldn't find. Potential alternative hypothesis: throwing away lots of sheets indicates high creativity. Perhaps not as directed or focused, but one of them may yield something someone only discarding 1/day wouldn’t find.

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