[etxm]

Thinking is the work - wherever or however you do it best.

Typing the code is an artifact of the work.

This is something that drives me nuts about interview questions where people want to “watch me think” - I don’t think sitting at my keyboard. I usually walk around the block or in my yard when thinking through the hard parts.

[Frost1x]

We have a generation of management that doesn't understand this because a lot of their work didn't involve the intersection of technical and creative thinking, nor do they understand technology.

Some of my best work occurs in the shower, laying in bed, in the restroom, browsing articles that generate ideas, having a casual chat, etc. but if I'm not pounding code or diagrams out at a certain velocity or sitting in meetings, someone who doesn't understand my job will wonder exactly what I'm getting paid for.

For a country so obsessed with migrating to IP based economics, we have a business culture that seems to understand nothing about intellectual work or want to play ignorant to slave drive more efficiency out of the workforce.

Yes, I do bill time I'm thinking about your project while I'm the shower. It may not be tangible to you but your work is occupying my mind and you're getting some of my best thoughts.

We need business culture and labor laws to shift to support this, the issue is, the intangible nature of it makes businesses cringe because it's difficult to quantity and know they're not being cheated, yet they sell the very same intangibles to consumers regularly set at arbitrary price points and that's perfectly fine.