Creativity and Working Conditions

The computer industry, especially the programming profession, has long had (at least internally) a reputation as one of the most creativity-centered disciplines of anything that’s called “engineering” (though what’s called software engineering usually isn’t). This is a very interesting study, though, which FastCompany (something I normally eschew) is reporting — the factors behind creativity and development are a lot closer to what crazy bleeding heart worker advocates claim and a lot further from what hard-nosed management types like to proclaim. See the article here….

This entry was written by David Terrell and posted on December 2, 2004 at 12:43 pm and filed under tech. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

4 Comments

  1. Christopher Stillson
    Posted December 14, 2004 at 4:19 pm | Permalink

    Dave, are you there?

    I sent you email (stillson at gmailNOTSPAM.com) but heard nothing back…

    send me an email, eh?

  2. Christopher Stillson
    Posted December 15, 2004 at 12:59 pm | Permalink

    I know you are there dave. Put down that wrench and send me an email.

  3. Christopher Stillson
    Posted December 20, 2004 at 8:17 pm | Permalink

    Blog spam. Evil.

    You should do something about that. And post more….

  4. dbt
    Posted December 21, 2004 at 12:23 am | Permalink

    Heh. I’d post more, Chris, but I don’t have anything interesting to say at the moment.

    Though I’ll whack all the comment spam in a minute.