Project Power
Here's a bit of reminder for you people who work for yourself...
Yesterday, me and two team members of a project I'm working on tried something new. We took three laptops and planted our arses in my ugly kitchen, armed with lots of coke and an 8mbit ADSL connection via WiFi. The objective was to finish a screenplay script and some other documentation, and we made use of a Wiki to do this. I.e. we all sat around a kitchen table with our computers and edited the same Wiki. Very, very efficient way to work on documents, by the way.
However, that is not my point...
The plan was to work for two hours and thirty minutes. We started after work, at 5PM. At 8PM, we started to get a little hungry, and went over to McDonalds and picked up some grub. Then we went back and continued. At 4AM, we were finished. We were all horribly tired, but satisifed and pround of ourselves. 11 hours of work almost straight. I would NEVER have been able to do that kind of performance by myself. I simply wouldn't have the energy to work for 11 hours in solitude, but when you are part of a team, it's not very hard at all. I call this effect Project Power.
It's when you work with others toward a collective goal that Project Power appears and gives you a vitamin injection. It's almost magical. Try to find people to work with on your projects, and they will become much better.
Yesterday, me and two team members of a project I'm working on tried something new. We took three laptops and planted our arses in my ugly kitchen, armed with lots of coke and an 8mbit ADSL connection via WiFi. The objective was to finish a screenplay script and some other documentation, and we made use of a Wiki to do this. I.e. we all sat around a kitchen table with our computers and edited the same Wiki. Very, very efficient way to work on documents, by the way.
However, that is not my point...
The plan was to work for two hours and thirty minutes. We started after work, at 5PM. At 8PM, we started to get a little hungry, and went over to McDonalds and picked up some grub. Then we went back and continued. At 4AM, we were finished. We were all horribly tired, but satisifed and pround of ourselves. 11 hours of work almost straight. I would NEVER have been able to do that kind of performance by myself. I simply wouldn't have the energy to work for 11 hours in solitude, but when you are part of a team, it's not very hard at all. I call this effect Project Power.
It's when you work with others toward a collective goal that Project Power appears and gives you a vitamin injection. It's almost magical. Try to find people to work with on your projects, and they will become much better.
posted by M. Johansson at 3:50 PM
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