Comment by man_from_space
5 years ago
OMG, another man with ideas rooted in Taylor's books. Measure everything, be a robot and at the end realize a fact you don't know anything new because you never had 30min slack time during the workweek to think differently
An inaccurate criticism which is addressed in the article: "Personally, I deliberately avoid working long hours and I suspect I don't work more than the median person at my company, which is a company where I think work-life balance is pretty good overall. A lot of my productivity gains have gone to leisure and not work. Furthermore, deliberately working on velocity has allowed me to get promoted relatively quickly, which means that I make more money than I would've made if I didn't get promoted, which gives me more freedom to spend time on things that I value."
Dan Luu is definitely not someone who never learns anything new or who doesn't think differently.
> Taylor's books
What is the book title? This article or the previous Dan Luu's "Some reasons to measure" doesn't seem to mention his name. Googling "Taylor measure" just gave me some pure math textbooks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_management, also known as "Taylorism" after Frederick Winslow Taylor. I don't think Dan Luu is saying anything like this, though.