Sunday, January 27, 2008
work, rest and play
Clive Thompson is a science journalist who writes for the New York Times and Wired, inter alia. His own blog is at http://www.collisondetection.com - well worth looking at . There's lots of fun stuff there, from his career as a Halo 3 suicide bomber to Japanese text-message based novels to US college athletics coaches desperately texting their potential charges in an attempt to forge a bond. In particular I enjoyed this piece about the sheer pleasure and sheer necessity of... wasting time. Which at 11.30 pm on a Sunday night is exactly what I should be doing....
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Indeed, what is it to waste time?
The implication from Thompson's article is that leisure is synonymous with wasting time - but this is only true if one has a preference for work.
If one has a preference for (at least some leisure) then working excessively could be conceived as a waste of time.
If we can (for the purposes of this date) - assume that leisure is synonymous with wasting time - then I certainly do think that it is good to waste some portion of time.
This could actually re-inforce the producutivity and creativity within work-time, and may even be pleasurable in itself!
Erratum: Insert "debate" for "date" above.
if you leave the sentence as it is, you have a great chat-up line.
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