Big Think Interview with Jason fried - Why you can't work at work?
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The modern workplace is structured completely wrong. It’s really optimized for interruptions.
Everyone’s calling meetings all the time, everyone’s screaming people’s names across the thing, there’s phones ringing all the time. People are walking around. It’s all about interruptions.
I’m working 50-60 hours this week. It’s not that there’s 50 or 60 hours worth of work to do, it’s because you don’t work at work anymore. You go to work to get interrupted.
Like before you know it, it’s 4:00 and you’ve got nothing done today.
If someone’s calling my name, or tapping on my shoulder, or knocking on my door, I can’t ignore those things.
Managers are the biggest problem because their whole world is built around interruption. That’s what they do. Management means interrupting. Hey, what’s going on? How’s this going? Let me call a meeting because that’s what I do all day, I call meetings. And so, managers are the real problems here and that’s got to change too.
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