On: Be smarter at work, slack off

[k7lim]

Ev Williams talks about how this book (Tom Demarco's _Slack_) sets the tone for his companies. And it was on his recommendation that I read it.

Ironically, he mentioned that his experience at Google did NOT typify the mentality of leaving space to maneuver. My experience there corroborates.

[prakash → k7lim]

Tom DeMarco's books are awesome. Slack really opened my mind, instead of optimizing every waking hour, I used a "structured procrastination" approach in getting things done.

[wanorris → prakash]

Structured procrastination?

Is that where you give yourself x minutes to surf the web or whatever, but when the timer goes off, you go back to work, or is it something else?

[kirubakaran → wanorris]

http://www.structuredprocrastination.com/

(using your tendency to procrastinate to work for you)