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A simple math equation can transform your productivity

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Re: A simple math equation can transform your productivity

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Post by rob_c »

boc wrote: post #3
rob_c wrote: post #2

The rest of us spell it mathS...

I don't go on British message boards and "correct" their spelling. Try to extend the same courtesy here.

Then I will then attack your use of equation to include addition and subtraction. Not a single differential, exponent or integral? Please ..

Re: A simple math equation can transform your productivity

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Post by Flankk »

doovd wrote: post #12
boc wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't go on British message boards and "correct" their spelling. Try to extend the same courtesy here.

How can you "correct" English from England?

While you're in front of your old english dictionary, look up dialect.

Re: A simple math equation can transform your productivity

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Post by lanstin »

dalmo3 wrote: post #26
jodrellblank wrote: post #21

> " When people meet a great leader, they often say, “She made me feel like I was the only person in the room.” Imagine giving that type of complete attention to everything you do—and making that thing the only thing in the room. " "Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes." ― Alan Watts. (In the sense that physically doing…

> Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes But if you're ascribing a higher meaning to the act is it still Zen? Maybe true Zen would be not even knowing it existed in the first place.

If you are peeling the potatoes and have a bit of whole-hearted potato peeling and then immediately go off "wow, I was really focused there, what Zen potato peeling!" for a minute, well, those thoughts are not Zen spirituality. It's a common problem with reading or listening to stories about whole-hearted activity - one fills up with "Zen thoughts" for a while.

Re: A simple math equation can transform your productivity

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Post by devnull255 »

erwincoumans wrote: post #27

His math literally doesn't add up. If you multi-task you need to ADD multiple multiplications, one for each task. For example, if you perfectly divide all attention, time and effort in two tasks, you ideally get: 0.5 * 0.2 + 0.5 * 0.15 (given that the value of the first task is 0.2 and the value of the second task is 0.15) One important point is likely, that there is overhead in multitasking, so the actual formula be…

Unless you consider the result of two tasks performed simultaneously a product of two tasks rather than the sum of two tasks.

Re: A simple math equation can transform your productivity

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Post by rob_c »

damiankennedy wrote: post #30

I was thinking of something more like Drake's equation. P = T * Hbar * Cbar^Dh * E * (Po)^N P = Productivity T = Tiredness Hbar = 2 PI/(HackerNews posts read) Cbar = 2 PI/(speed of light) Dh = Disruptions per hour E = Environment Po = Productivity of people you work with N = Number of people you work with

Yeah that was my assumption as to what would have been an "equation", but then I suppose we don't work in HR...

Re: A simple math equation can transform your productivity

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Post by erwincoumans »

axiosgunnar wrote: post #9

> Ozan Varol is a rocket scientist turned law professor > "If you multiply two numbers together, shouldn't the output be a larger number?" Glad this guy isn't building rockets anymore :-)

Indeed. And even if you don't involve fractions, and multiply with either 0 or 1, the output won't be a larger number.
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