Comments on: Ninja, Pirate or Zombie: What’s Your Attitude to Work?

By: Prasanna

Prasanna — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 07:31:50 +0000

Haha
Pirate when it comes to timings and stuff. Ninja when it comes to how my computer’s setup. And a total Zombie otherwise!
Great post!

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Washing away problems — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:20:29 +0000

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By: 忍者，海盗，还是僵尸 « Stable

忍者，海盗，还是僵尸 « Stable — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 08:30:23 +0000

[...] 最近看了一片文章Ninja, Pirate or Zombie: What’s Your Attitude to Work?，将人的工作方式分为三种，忍者，海盗，僵尸。我看了一下自己，算是忍者。这是节选：“忍者热衷于提高效率，每天5点起床，他们会读life hacking之类的blog，会自己自己编码自己的firefox插件。会变以三倍的速度听电子书边工作。会把生活中的每个方面的事情都整合到一个复杂的系统中。他知道20中使用文件夹的方法。他的但脑，坦诚的说，有点吓人。” 如果你是一个忍者类型的人，你会听到别人对你这么说： “你怎么把这么多事情做完的？” “你为什么需要3个电脑屏幕?” …… 我虽然不会自己编码firefox插件，但是我会自定义无数插件，会把桌面的每一图标摆到最顺手的位置，会把资源管理器的每一个文件夹整理的很好，会把email的inbox清空。我虽然没有3台显示器，但是有两台的那段时间，我的确很开心。我会把桌子上面每一个物体的位置都计划好。我会有那种让生活中一切都有序的冲动。但是，我发现，虽然我会费劲的把很多东西系统化，尽量活的非常有条理，但是结果并总令人满意。例如，我的确很忙，但是结果却不怎么好。为什么？因为身为一个忍者，过于在意效率，而忽略的效能，或者说价值。费尽心思整理的电脑，使用的时候并没有比其他人一般的电脑创造更多的价值。费劲搭建出一个有秩序的系统，却忽略了很多实际因素，比如可用性，重用程度等。有时候我在想，我们这种类型的人之所以很忙，并不是应为我们真的有很多事情要做，只是我们不愿停下来，我们很珍惜时间，但是不知道如何将时间放到有用的地方。每天不停的做事，其实只是害怕停下来的那种荒废的感觉，其实只是换一种方式荒废罢了。现在是每个忍者注意的时候了！首先，我们需要有明确的目标，需要结果导向，做每一件事的时候，不仅要衡量这件事是否高效，是否顺手，还要想想做的价值是什么，我为什么要把iGoogle整理的比谁的都漂亮，我真的需要从上面看天气预报么。其次，要学会容错，学会在不习惯的环境中生活和工作。凡是都有成本，建立一个良好秩序的成本如果高于你适应环境的成本，为何要去建造？还是目标重要。最后，要有乐趣，这一类人需要从to list中跳出来，寻找生活的乐趣。好消息是，忍者型的人想达到任何目标都相对简单些，因为他们已经有了做事的能力，只是需要一些wisdom去引导。至于海盗和僵尸，大家有兴趣可以看前面链接的文章，大致的，海盗就是利益驱动，短视的人。僵尸就是什么东西做完就好，没有自我驱动的人。但是，不是每个人都仅仅属于一个类型，例如我可能是一个大忍者小僵尸。 [...]

By: Paras Jain

Paras Jain — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:31:37 +0000

This is a great post. I am more of a Ninja

By: Katie

Katie — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 04:15:57 +0000

Ali, this was a fun post. I was a little disappointed though that all the characters you described were men – there are woman pirates, ninjas, and zombies too! Which one is most like you?

By: Jarrod - Warrior Development

Jarrod - Warrior Development — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:41:42 +0000

I would be a lesser ninja. Trying to become a samurai who does what needs to be done without being asked to do so.

By: Stephen Martile

Stephen Martile — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:20:50 +0000

Hi Ali,

I’d categorize myself as Spiderman because I like super-heros.

I think of myself as a Spiderman because he has super powers to help other people. He’s someone who provides massive value as part of the work he does. And he provides massive value with very little effort.

For instance, I could write a really powerful book that affects thousands or even millions of people and not even break a sweat after the book has been written. In that way I’m providing massive value to a large group of people but doing very little work – sort of like a super hero might.

Spidy Senses are tingling,

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:06:51 +0000

A “little bit” of myself? You are not really setting ambitious goals with regards reaching some basic level of accuracy in your descriptions, are you? Of course there is a little bit of me in one of the described characters. Then again, I am sure the average cat can recognize herself in at least one of the descriptions. I am quite happy not to know ANYONE who is described remotely accurately by these attitudes.

Actually, somebody recogizing himself in one of these attitudes is obviously in the wrong line of work. As is his employer for not immediately recognizing something is horribly wrong.

By: Julian

Julian — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:01:25 +0000

Well, according to this “classification”, when I’m in bed or not working, I tend to be a pirate – but once I get going, I turn into a ninja. Actually, I do listen regularly to my audiobooks at 2.5x speed while exercising or washing the dishes…