October 25, 2007

Best (And Worst) Thing To Show Your Boss

If, like me, you work in the software world, you will like the following from Joel Spolsky’s article on software engineering and schedules at Inc.com:

Software development takes immense intellectual effort. Even the best programmers can rarely sustain that level of effort for more than a few hours a day. Beyond that, they need to rest their brains a bit, which is why they always seem to be surfing the Internet or playing games when you barge in on them.