Printers
You know what I don’t understand? Almost every (office) printer now takes a full ream of paper. Why do people only put part of a ream in the printer and leave the rest for later?That Little Red Light
I’d like to change my work voicemail message so it says “This is Lauren Farmer. I’m obviously not here and I will not listen to your message, so please call me back later. OR, better yet, email me!”
I’ve seriously considered doing this also. I hate retrieving voicemails more than there is any rational explanation for. I don’t really mind on my cell phone but I hate it on my desk phone.
Here is my solution. Sometimes I forward my desk phone to GrandCentral and get voicemails in my email where I can listen to them from my computer. I wish I could answer my phone at my desk but have it forward to GC if I don’t answer it.
That does seem true sometimes, doesn’t it?
The Do-Nothing Effect
Your job, where you likely spend the largest amount of your awake day, should be a place that encourages you to try new things. Your employer should be encouraging you to look at a problem in a new way, encouraging you to read about the new “it” thing in your field, encouraging you to try something new, and they should be rewarding those people who help themselves (and by extension, the company) this way.
If your employer isn’t encouraging you to grow intellectually, they’re encouraging you to stagnate, inside and outside of the office.
Good stuff.
Beautiful Code
“I find it immensely helpful to work on the assumption that I am too stupid to get things right. This leads me to conservatively use what has already been shown to work, to cautiously test out new ideas before committing to them, and above all to prize simplicity.” —Jonathan Edwards (no, not that one) (via)
(via Quote of the Week)