This slice of Happy Hour is for Amateurs covers something I’ve talked about in the past – the “3:1 Ratio.” Something everyone from twenty-two to forty will recognize. Well, everyone who values his or her time… who demands that every hour in the office be matched by, or obliterated from memory with, an equivalent hour spent “blowing the carbon out of the cylinders.” As the subtitle of the chapter notes, it’s a study on “The Art of Balance.” …And a few other things:
Three-to-One
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Again, such a great read. The concept is so true it’s painful. This is why I hate wasting time when it’s outside of work. Even waiting for my girlfriend pisses me off. I scream inside when I am late for something, or find myself standing around doing nothing outside of work. This makes complete sense.
PL: The only thing worse than wasting it outside of work is thinking about how much you;re wasting in work. If a corporation really wanted to incentivize employees on the cheap it would offer not bonuses, but paid time off in return for meeting certain goals. Nothing compels a worker like the promise that the more he does in the sort term, the less he’ll have to be in the goddamned office later. It’d also be a great way of weeding out the unproductive. The people in the office the most would obviously be the laziest. Easy to figure out who to fire.