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Work Could be More Funner

Started by manalang · 9 months ago

At Web 2.0 Expo about a month ago, Rich, Paul and I all attended a fascinating session called “Children of Flickr: Making the Massively Multiplayer Social Web“. Aside from being interesting, it reenergized me on my quest to make work more fun.
Then, daily operatio ... Continue reading »

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  • Dan Norris

    1 year ago

    Purely by coincidence, I suppose this was a little bit related to the comment/suggestion I made about creating a virtual slot machine to randomize OOW suggestions so that the middle ones got fair screen time. I remember saying, I wouldn't just sit and look at random data, but if you put it in a slot machine game, I'd play that for a while (and also read the contents). Maybe not exactly the same idea, but certainly related to your gaming + work = funner work theory, right?
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  • Jake

    1 year ago

    Totally right, and I wish we had the Flex/Flash chops to do that type of idea viewer now. Rich may get there soon, but I doubt it would be before the voting deadline. We may use that for internal ideas, maybe call it the 'One-armed Norris' or something.
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  • ontarioemperor

    1 year ago

    Years and years ago, I was at work one day when I said that I would "play" with something; I got some negative stares for that one...

    Perhaps making work "fun" is too high of a goal. We could start by making work less painful.
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  • Jake

    1 year ago

    Ha, good story. I held off on rambling on about Gen Y people entering the workforce, expecting more from work because I've beat that drum before, but here it goes again :)
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