Sunday, May 31, 2009

Work re-defined...

Took a break the other day around 2.30pm and decided to go for a run. (My day is so much better when I exercise before 4pm).

While out in the park, I saw one of my neighbors. She's retired.

She looked at me and said, "What? Not working today?"

This mental model of "work" as someplace you go and do during defined hours...a relic of the industrial era. In the conceptual/information era  "Work" is something you do according to defined goals and is "place-shifted" and "time-shifted."

There are a lot of ramifications for that, I am sure.

What do you think they are?

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