Wednesday, July 28, 2004
At Least It Falls Short of Chronocide
BusinessPundit has a great post up from yesterday on time abuse; procrastination and the like. I confessed to my failings in the comments, which have gotten quite interesting. The most recent commenter notes, in his second point:
Many of us here in the I.T. field are like me. We like to understand things, solve problems, and explain mysteries. Unfortunately there is often extra work to do after the understanding is done. At that point we tend to move on to new, exciting problems. This just takes will power to overcome.
That made me say “yup yup yup, that’s me.” Then I observed, to Deb, that was also my former partner, except he tended not to get to the basic level of completion before moving on. Oops.
Update:
I was quite pleased with myself for “coining” the word chronocide for the title. To see if I really had, I followed up by Googling, rather than being NY Times-like in my assumptions. So much for my cleverness; 1370 hits.