Khan
Gone but not forgotten
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I have noticed that whenever I start tracking something I start (almost unconsciously) using less. Electricity, water, natural gas, food, money...
During two and a half years from 1924 to 1927, a series of illumination level studies were conducted by the industrial engineers of Western Electric Company Works in Cicero; Illinois.[4]:
- Study 1a: In the first experiment, there was no control group. The researchers experimented on three different departments; all showed an increase of productivity, whether illumination increased or decreased.
- Study 1b: A control group had no change in lighting, while the experimental group got a sequence of increasing light levels. Both groups substantially increased production, and there was no difference between the groups. This naturally piqued the researchers' curiosity.
- Study 1c: The researchers decided to see what would happen if they decreased lighting. The control group got stable illumination; the other got a sequence of decreasing levels. Surprisingly, both groups steadily increased production until finally the light in experimental group got so low that they protested and production fell off.
I have noticed that whenever I start tracking something I start (almost unconsciously) using less. Electricity, water, natural gas, food, money...
Damn...... I'm getting a headache thinking about it. This thread sucks......
Except that tomorrow is Monday morning - and you can sleep in if you want!
That doesn't suck!
-ERD50
When I started tracking net worth, I increased my savings efforts. Tracking is a motivator.
Hmmm - I've been tracking 'doing nothing in particular' going on 14 yrs of ER - near as I can tell - I'm getting real good at it.
But it is a tough one to measure though.
heh heh heh - ice storm, scattered power outages predicted for tonight - so I've taken those nothings I did have off the agenda - probably show a big improvement spike.
Geeesh...... you folks are reminding me of w*ork and MegaCorp. The thought for the day, everyday, day in and day out, was that if we wanted to improve some metric (cost, quality, whatever) measure it.
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There is an announcement in my gym that goes "that that gets measured gets improved"
If I measure it, will it get longer?
Hmmm -
heh heh heh - ice storm, scattered power outages predicted for tonight - so I've taken those nothings I did have off the agenda - probably show a big improvement spike.
Life is hard - with all that entertainment - now I have to dream up something for the Holidays - since the warm visit is out of the way - Texas? , go north to ski?, heh heh heh ?
5 days - power went out AFTER the Saints won on Monday night football. Lasted till thursday - when the last neighbor on my side of the street departed for a relative with power and heat - I decided to visit my old buddy old pal in Covington LA (across the Causeway from New Orleans) - 14 hrs 36 minuites including stops for gas and coffee - made some other visits in New Orleans and Slidell. Back tonight. No more tree branches or light pole power line in the street. My house sitter/dog watcher said the my power was restored the day after I threw in the towel and went south for a visit - theirs didn't come on till 2 days later than mine.
Life is hard - with all that entertainment - now I have to dream up something for the Holidays - since the warm visit is out of the way - Texas? , go north to ski?, heh heh heh ?
I think it would be nice if you forewarned us of where you decide to go. The way natural disaster seems to follow you, I want as much advance notice as possible if you're headed my way...
Based on this success, they next decided to count bug reports. Programmers were down rated based on number of bugs attributed to their code. Testers were up graded based on the number of bugs they reported. It didn't take long until testers learned that an easy route to high bug numbers was to report trivial issues quickly, using a separate report for every slight variation. Elusive bugs or larger issues that would take more time to investigate or write up were not worth the effort. Programmers were soon at war with Testers over the bug counts and Management had no end of numbers to report on.
I have noticed that whenever I start tracking something I start (almost unconsciously) using less. Electricity, water, natural gas, food, money...