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Comment by 90s_dev

1 day ago

> He thought and wrote "-2000 lines". Management stopped asking Bill to fill out the form.

This lesson stuck with me for years. Final results alone are measurable, not productivity.

Imagine being the manager that had to assess Bill Atkinson's productivity!

> Final results alone are measurable

Not even those, for individuals

Mostly we work in teams. I myself like to work in "plumbing" that is arbitrarily far from "final results"