I was excited to see Bing's picture yesterday. They even had another great link.

I seriously considered starting a site just to contain stories of people doing the least possible work in their job; "Bare Minimum" in other words.

With a racy title and self-submitted-stultifying content, what's not to like?

Instead, I'll just pop a few quick items in from time to time. Today's quick lesson/question is this: if you spend a long amount of time to perform the same task someone can do quicker, why wouldn't you go back to them and ask what you did wrong, or how you could improve the next time?

Enough said.

They tend to yawn.

Subway's new pastrami sandwich is awful. Ugh.

A great piece on UI.

Remember when you'd call someone, and it'd go to a voicemail that would say, in a dorky high-pitched voice, "Hi, it's Edward, I'm not here right now but if you leave your name and number, I'll get back to you as soon as I can."

Today that message has been replaced by (insert robot voice) "YOU HAVE REACHED 202-555-8888. BEEEEEEP."

I'm not sure why the change took place...

If I give you a bunch of tasks to complete, and you manage to complete them all, does that signify you accomplished something?

It does not.

Some people have trouble distinguishing between "busy work" and "tasks that help the mission". If you can't tell the difference, chances are you're doing the former.

If I tell you to perform a task, and it's your top priority, why would you tell me you waited several hours to begin it?

If you have a spelling error at the top of your resume, what's the point?