Its one of the books I include in my 'desk library' at the office.. I'm an old graybeard, but it's an amazing book for folks to understand the joy and shortcommings and pressures a project can put on you
I hoovered up all the hardcover copies I could and for many years gave them as gifts to my teammates after our projects shipped. Mostly as thanks for a job well done, and just a tiny bit as an apology for what they'd just been through.
Did your team work similar jobs as described in the book? That must be fantastic! Yeah I know most of work is 80% chore, but at least the other 20% part is fantastic.
God I remember overpaying for my boardwatch magazine subscription just to be aware of new trends so I could write better BBS Software... ahh memories :)
I remember someone posting about being a passenger on container ships so they could get isolation for defined periods of time and travel to different places. They found the isolation allowed them to focus on their tasks better since the internet was limited when away from port.
Container ships passenger ? You mean as some form of bystander and not in the actual container ? ;)
> They found the isolation allowed them to focus on their tasks better
Isolation in that context is just form of work. But to focus / be productive on something you need to have a lot of expertise and also knowledge of concrete "domain", eg. knowledge of code base. So you need to learn a lot before you can be productive.
> since the internet was limited when away from port
So maybe management is constant and unneeded distraction for proficient workers those days ? Meetings was probably invented to destroy productivity...
Or just average Joe Worker is helpless versus Internet ? And that is the problem called "reality"... Moust peoples are not 1000x programmer that can be left alone for some time and then BOOM some magnificient piece materializes...
Workers just can't be proficient in extended isolation periods. Even management is needed for moust of us... "Work from home" actually is "work less from home". And all that assumes good worker intentions what is naive especially after longer periods of time.
I used to host at a facility in DC that hosted Pat Robertson's presidential campaign's server.. they had surrounded his server with all of their adult hosting clients as a... show of support.
Oh hell yeah, that's top of my list once I crack open the case (waiting for a long T15 driver to arrive!) and poke around inside. I've got a lot of friends who have done it before, so I'll give them the board and and some money and some chocolate/beer (depending on the friend!) and ask for help with recapping the logic board.
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