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I more or less work the same way. I suspect most of us do.
And when you add up all the minutiae involved in creating a document, yes,
it looks like 8hrs/page is reasonable. But it's a mathematical trick: did
it -really- take 400 days to produce a 400 page document? Of course not.
It's much the same as those tip sheets that tell us all the things we're
supposed to do daily if we want to have a richer, more productive life.
Individually, none of them take more than a minute here, or a few minutes
there. But if I recall correctly from a USA Today* sidebar article a few
years back, summarizing the most common, popular "tips," when all those
minutes were tallied up our richer, more productive life was going to
require a 37-hour day to achieve.
So, John, are you going to share your secret for temporal manipulation with
the rest of us?
L
*the article may have been in another publication, I'm not entirely sure
-----Original Message-----
From: John Posada
Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 3:35 PM
OK, I don't think many of us need 8 hours to write a page of
instruction...takes me maybe 2-3 hours to create a detailed page of
steps.
However, add in:
...<snip thorough list of steps>...
Maybe 8 hours isn't too far off...or is it just the way I work?
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