Comments on: Struggling with struggling: from homework to real work to impact http://www.technotheory.com/2011/09/struggling-with-struggling-from-homework-to-real-work-to-impact/ Time-saving reflections on lifehacking, social media, and technology. Mon, 30 Dec 2013 18:20:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 By: Jared Goralnick http://www.technotheory.com/2011/09/struggling-with-struggling-from-homework-to-real-work-to-impact/comment-page-1/#comment-122664 Jared Goralnick Mon, 14 Nov 2011 16:42:16 +0000 http://www.technotheory.com/2011/09/struggling-with-struggling-from-homework-to-real-work-to-impact/#comment-122664 Thanks, Max. I couldn't agree with you more on the lack of validating signals as we get further and further from our initial academic life. Alas, at least we can do our best. Thanks, Max. I couldn’t agree with you more on the lack of validating signals as we get further and further from our initial academic life. Alas, at least we can do our best.

]]> By: Busy Signals http://www.technotheory.com/2011/09/struggling-with-struggling-from-homework-to-real-work-to-impact/comment-page-1/#comment-122654 Busy Signals Mon, 14 Nov 2011 16:23:36 +0000 http://www.technotheory.com/2011/09/struggling-with-struggling-from-homework-to-real-work-to-impact/#comment-122654 I think there's something to be said for one aspect you allude to of our early, productively academic years: they were measured. It wasn't just that we had to show up (or at least that there were legal, social, and parental consequences if we didn't), it was also that if we showed up THERE WERE METRICS. Lately, I'm becoming conscious of how rarely I get graded on anything. Did the deliverable get done to spec and on time? If not, there might (often isn't) a meeting to discuss what went wrong, but there's no score, no school records to compete against, and no grades. In my earlier years, I think I studied so hard and got so much done because there was a measurement of what I was doing. And that's something I'm trying to get back in my workflow now. I think there’s something to be said for one aspect you allude to of our early, productively academic years: they were measured. It wasn’t just that we had to show up (or at least that there were legal, social, and parental consequences if we didn’t), it was also that if we showed up THERE WERE METRICS.

Lately, I’m becoming conscious of how rarely I get graded on anything. Did the deliverable get done to spec and on time? If not, there might (often isn’t) a meeting to discuss what went wrong, but there’s no score, no school records to compete against, and no grades.

In my earlier years, I think I studied so hard and got so much done because there was a measurement of what I was doing. And that’s something I’m trying to get back in my workflow now.

]]> By: Jared Goralnick http://www.technotheory.com/2011/09/struggling-with-struggling-from-homework-to-real-work-to-impact/comment-page-1/#comment-106055 Jared Goralnick Tue, 27 Sep 2011 17:49:36 +0000 http://www.technotheory.com/2011/09/struggling-with-struggling-from-homework-to-real-work-to-impact/#comment-106055 Thanks, Tim. Getting back into blogging it's interesting to see how comments are used less often...but a lot of folks have emailed, and I definitely appreciate the comment. Thanks, Tim. Getting back into blogging it’s interesting to see how comments are used less often…but a lot of folks have emailed, and I definitely appreciate the comment.

]]> By: Tim Koelkebeck http://www.technotheory.com/2011/09/struggling-with-struggling-from-homework-to-real-work-to-impact/comment-page-1/#comment-106054 Tim Koelkebeck Tue, 27 Sep 2011 17:47:16 +0000 http://www.technotheory.com/2011/09/struggling-with-struggling-from-homework-to-real-work-to-impact/#comment-106054 Great post! One of my favorites. Great post! One of my favorites.

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