Funny how we now have to consider slowing down as a gift of decadent time. I immediately thought of The Gift of Time, which is a collection of tributes to the work of software engineering/systems development pioneer Gerald Weinberg. Largely written by engineering types who'd worked on organizational development efforts, the essays share a common theme of the need to create space in which to grow.
Tom de Marco, another software pioneer, argues in his book Slack that organizations and individuals cannot achieve substantive change without accepting that it inherently requires a willingness to waste time — or rather, to spend time without a guarantee of immediate results.
Funny how we now have to consider slowing down as a gift of decadent time. I immediately thought of The Gift of Time, which is a collection of tributes to the work of software engineering/systems development pioneer Gerald Weinberg. Largely written by engineering types who'd worked on organizational development efforts, the essays share a common theme of the need to create space in which to grow.
Tom de Marco, another software pioneer, argues in his book Slack that organizations and individuals cannot achieve substantive change without accepting that it inherently requires a willingness to waste time — or rather, to spend time without a guarantee of immediate results.
Has been my goal with Interintellect for a decade :)