Process-oriented or Result-oriented

This page is shared by one of my friends in his Google Reader. Mostly based on Parkinson's law that "Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion". The author says a lot can be accomplished by keeping a fixed time schedule. He cites several examples from others and his own life to prove his claim. I do agree. I personally tend to work better if I am with certain constraints - in this case "the time". Better planning and organising makes the task easy to accomplish within a short time. I know a friend of mine who used to cook with just 2 vessels and a spoon. And he cooks rice, chicken, vegetable side-dish, dosa and what not! Constrained resources makes you use them as optimal as possible.

I still remember the days when I was working on optimizing video processing algorithms to be done in lesser number of cycles.

Over a period of time, you learn and become more creative in utilising the resources effectively.There is always a debate between the process-oriented and result-oriented. For long, people have advocated to be process-oriented and said that results will follow. If you achieve the results, no body questions the process unless it is totally non-agreeable, unethical, unlawful etc. Proponents of process oriented may say that it is the journey not the destination that gives satisfaction. I am of the opinion that the objective is different for different people. Some people get satisfaction in good execution and some people derive satisfaction in better results with minimal efforts.

Options

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This is about options in life. At every moment in life we are faced with some or other kind of options. And after scrutinizing all, we choose one and later repent for what we have chosen. We always want to better ourselves or in better terms, want to better our neighbours. We tend to think we have enough resources, but the problem is in utilizing them properly. At any point, there will always be a person doing better than us. We think of undoing our chosen option, but in real life the ctrl-z rarely works. It finally comes down to "want more, learn more, enjoy more" and in all these we lose our happiness and try to find them in the desire to get more and more, in the process, losing whatever is remaining too. Contentment is the key word which is missing these days. More you need, more your time put on business, more your business owns you, less you find time chilling out, less you listen(or better to put "communicate") to your inner-self, less you find time to search your real passion, end up in an while(1).

See the other post related to this by me.