I really really really appreciate the way the mail application on the iPhone knows to travel to the next logical email whenever I click delete. It figures out which direction you’re traveling through your emails. Are you reading the latest or the newest?
It’s just such an enjoyable experience. It’s the only mail application that I have ever seen do this. Not even Gmail does this and that’s saying something.
Relaxing with Kara in her new apartment. It’s almost 10AM and we’re still in bed. It’s wonderful.
Kara made us some breakfast and hot chocolate.
I’m going to leave soon and get ready for the day. I would prefer not to, but responsibility is about delayed satisfaction as opposed to immediate satisfaction.
It snowed yesterday. I appreciate the snow, but not the driving conditions that come with it.
In summary, the tragedy of the commons is best explained like this: A dilemma in which multiple individuals acting independently and solely and rationally consulting their own self-interest will ultimately destroy a shared limited resource even when it is clear that it is not in anyone’s long term interest for this to happen. — Wikipedia.
I think it’s a stretch associating the “Tragedy of the Commons” with cleaning a coffee pot. It sounds more to me like a simple story of teamwork. When I think of Tragedy of the commons I think of a limited resource that cannot quickly be replenished. Examples are fields of grass, a sea filled with fish, clean air, etc … not a clean coffee pot.
When it comes to repetitive chores I like to think that it’s usually the fault of the system and not so much the people. There needs to be an obvious reason for a person to do a specific chore or it needs to be so ridiculously easy to do – that the person will do it without thinking.
Clean the coffee pot or your fired.
Clean the coffee pot because you are on video.
Clean the coffee pot or the office linebacker will pummel you.
If I had to suggest a sincere solution. I would agree with a suggestion that was made earlier. A coffee maker that makes a single cup of coffee. You make it, you enjoy it. The benefits of coffee pot cleanup are most obvious with this setup. The biggest con would be the amount of time wasted waiting on a cup of coffee to brew. We could share the responsibility of making a bigger pot of coffee but then we would be right back at square one.
That’s a simple setup; I am not sure how many groups out there can handle a more robust setup.
You could always assign all of the responsibility to one person, but what happens when that one person is too busy or even worse, out sick?
I woke up this morning to browse the nets and ran into a post from Gary Vaynerchuck, I wanted to click the play button and watch the video but couldn’t. All I could think to myself was … it’s too early to get yelled at.
Hung out w/ friends at Adobe Cafe at Marquee center. Friend @holtkampw is learning Ruby, i loath you … but in a good way.
Saw “HangOver.” Hilarious. Don’t expect “hilarious” when you see it though, because then you’ll only get “funny” out of it. Then ended up at some small place called So Vino. Winery with club music, white linens and a tolerance for shorts.
Probably heading down to Galveston beach today, but not looking forward to the traffic.
Also, have you seen Google Squared? It builds comparison charts. An administrative-assistance dream, I presume. Hat tip to @holtkampw.
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