On: 100% time

[cemerick]

Author here. While I appreciate the reads, I am even more glad for the amusement provided by various comments about how I'm confused about what "100% time" means (since, AFAIK, the post is where the term was first used outside of private conversations with friends of mine), or that it's potentially illegal, or that it's really just the typical 80/20 split and I can't tell the difference. Cheers! :-D

Snark aside, Craig Andera asked me about the post on a recent Relevance podcast, and we talked about it and matters related to 100% time for a good stretch:

http://thinkrelevance.com/blog/2013/05/14/chas-emerick-mostl...

[furyofantares → cemerick]

> since, AFAIK, the post is where the term was first used outside of private conversations with friends of mine

I believe the term is used in the Valve employees handbook

[cemerick → furyofantares]

It's close (from http://www.valvesoftware.com/company/Valve_Handbook_LowRes.p...):

    We’ve heard that other companies have people allocate a
    percentage of their time to self-directed projects. At 
    Valve, that percentage is 100.

I definitely don't claim any originality in the concept. The pithy, perhaps eye-roll-worthy phrasing, maybe. ;-)

[loumf → cemerick]

Didn't I just read on HN that the Valve thing was BS? http://www.develop-online.net/news/44746/Valves-perfect-hiri...

I know Chas fairly well, and I'm reasonably sure this isn't what he was talking about.

[cemerick → loumf]

Yes, that reply was only regarding the particular phrase "100% time", and the very broad concept of self-directed work.

[dugmartin → cemerick]

This is turning into a Western Mass developers thread. Paging cmiles74 and ggualberto.