{"id":742,"date":"2012-02-06T21:11:24","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T04:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/?p=742"},"modified":"2012-02-06T21:11:24","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T04:11:24","slug":"treating-work-like-a-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/treating-work-like-a-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Treating work like a race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chad Fowler, in his book, <em>My Job Went to India<\/em>, made the following remarks about working effectively:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">If you treat your projects like a race, you&#8217;ll get to the end a lot faster than if you treat them like a prison cell.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">A sense of urgency, even if manufactured, is enough to easily double or triple your productivity.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d add that it needs to be an enjoyable race, and that urgency, sustained for too long, can wear a person out. Races are more enjoyable when run with a group of friends.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chad Fowler, in his book, My Job Went to India, made the following remarks about working effectively: If you treat your projects like a race, you&#8217;ll get to the end a lot faster than if you treat them like a prison cell. A sense of urgency, even if manufactured, is enough to easily double or &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/treating-work-like-a-race\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Treating work like a race&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=742"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":744,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions\/744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}