There's this Calvin and Hobbes strip where Calvin's dad says that if we actually wanted more leisure time, we'd invent machines that did things more slowly, and I think about it all the time.

[ghostdancer@mastodon.sdf.org]

@camertron Watterson was/is a visionary. So many things on C&H were so on point. That's what makes it one of the greatest comic strips of all time.

[lawyerjsd@mastodon.social]

@camertron Hmm. . .that does explain my cooking habits.

[camertron@ruby.social]

@lawyerjsd

[jhwgh1968@chaos.social]

@camertron it is no surprise to me that Bill Watterson not only retired near the top of his game at the "perfect" time to have a good legacy rather than "overstaying in the spotlight"

But then *vanished off the face of the Earth* to some tiny fishing cabin on the ocean and only has e-mail with people he knew from before he was famous with rare exceptions

This is the way

(Source: my memory of when this happened: https://slate.com/culture/2014/06/bill-watterson-does-pearls-before-swine-the-calvin-and-hobbes-creator-emerged-from-retirement-to-work-with-stephan-pastis.html )

[anygould@kind.social]

@camertron The dream world:

[thesquirrelfish@sfba.social]

@keoni @camertron right? And this seems especially true when what they mean by work is create more email no one wants to read.

[darwinwoodka@mastodon.social]

@thesquirrelfish @keoni @camertron

that hopes it finds us well

[kasperd@westergaard.social]

For some reason that reminded me of https://m.xkcd.com/303/

[lorenzleutgeb@academiccloud.social]

@camertron This is Jevons paradox, right?

[robotistry@fediscience.org]

@ghostdancer @camertron So true! This one is the most visceral explanation of why specifying autonomous robot behavior is hard I've ever seen - identifying relevant edge cases in advance is almost impossible.

[ghostdancer@mastodon.sdf.org]

@Robotistry @camertron IG before it existed.

[drangnon@hachyderm.io]

@camertron in tech, there's an xkcd for this concept: https://xkcd.com/303/

[gilesgoat@toot.wales]

@camertron I like that one where Calvin 'invents a more efficient time use / way to do his homework" by using a kitchen timer and setting times around 1 minute to complete 'tasks'

[faraiwe@mstdn.social]

@camertron Watterson, American prophet and daydreamer extraordinaire.

[clemensg@digitalcourage.social]

@roy_calum @camertron

"Entschleunigung" is negative acceleration, i.e. a continuous decrease in speed.

[glennseto@mastodon.social]

@kasperd @camertron Teaching IT in adult education and this has to be among the top 5 xkcd comics I reference.

(The undisputed #1 being correct horse battery staple.)

[glennseto@mastodon.social]

@gilesgoat @camertron Calvin invented the Pomodoro Technique?

[gilesgoat@toot.wales]

@glennseto @camertron I know there's a strip IIRC where he talks about "ETM" Effective Time Management ..EDIT : THIS STRIP

[axol_otleon@mastodon.social]

@camertron Our systems are already less efficient. Waiting on computer software becomes a larger part of the day each year, and software becomes more bloathed. Nowadays you cannot even easily find what is the hold up on windows systems, but still things are not moving. Seems we have passed the efficiency marker on this OS a good while ago. Adding more memory, bandwidth and horsepower is not keeping up with it anymore. To think we’ve put people on the moon with much less…

[argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org]

@camertron

Can't confirm. These machines made my life possible at all. When I got bullied in school, Internet chat became my only available form of social contact. Without it, I'd have had no one but my parents to talk to.

That was when I was 12.

Which is why it absolutely breaks my heart to hear people say kids should be kicked out of social media. What an awful idea! They're going to ruin a lot of innocent children's lives and mental health that way.