[yuuuuyu]

Or it could be that you had a brilliant idea for the rest of the sentence, but the strict rule prevents you from writing it down, and next day you can't remember it and chase it all day and still be unsatisfied in the end. Either because of lost time or because you couldn't remember/recreate it, or even both.

I suppose it just goes both ways. Try not to finish sth so that you don't have the somewhat hard task to start with sth new next day. But at the same time don't stop in the middle of sth that's difficult to pick up from. A strict timing rule does only help if you are statistically more often at a point where it's easy to pick up again. I doubt that you are though, so I'd try a more concious approach than a clock.

I really like the parking downhill analogy.

[augment001]

> A strict timing rule does only help if you are statistically more often at a point where it's easy to pick up again. I doubt that you are though, so I'd try a more concious approach than a clock.

Although I disagree with you when it comes to corporate policy, I basically agree with you at a deeper level.

I think that being able to be completely asynchronous about how and when you work, while also being unafraid and deeply reflective about your process would be more of an ideal.

However this isn’t realistic in a corporate situation, and in such a setting most people are more likely to be suffering from meaningless workaholism induced by relentless corporate pressure than they are to be operating at the highest levels of self-actualization.

[pl90087]

I like your attitude towards this.

One should try to create a study to investigate the effects better.

As alternative to "6pm you guys all go home, period.", there is likely a difference between "6pm you all go home, but if you really must finish sth, I'll wait until 6:30pm to pull the plug" and "go home whenever you want" (which may end up being 8pm or 10pm and in a game theoretic setting may lead to later and later time).

[ambicapter]

> A strict timing rule does only help if you are statistically more often at a point where it's easy to pick up again. I doubt that you are though

You really think so? You think you spend the vast majority of your time at work doing things that are so complex they're hard to pick back up 12 hours later?

[pl90087]

That's not how I read the comment. Between the "easy to pick up from here" (downhill parking) and "hard to pick up from here" (uphill parking) there is the most likely most common "indifferent" (parking flat). The main theme of this article is to try to always park downhill. So, an interruption that is anything than parking downhill is to be avoided. The claim is that you spend the vast majority of your time at work not facing downhill. Intuitively, that makes sense.