{"id":1155,"date":"2013-04-20T10:45:49","date_gmt":"2013-04-20T10:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/?p=1155"},"modified":"2013-04-20T10:45:49","modified_gmt":"2013-04-20T10:45:49","slug":"time-management-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/?p=1155","title":{"rendered":"Time Management (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’d rather that someone was accurately vague than precise but wrong. For example, I’d rather that a student or colleague said “I’ll be able to come and find you for ten minutes sometime between 4 and 5 o’clock” rather than “I’ll see you for ten minutes at 4 o’clock” and then show up at 4:45. <\/p>\n

People who think that I’m pedantic and autistic about appointments don’t realise this. They think that I want everything nailed down, and so endeavour to be exact even when that isn’t possible. The problem is that they think I am going to be unsettled\/offended at the imprecision. The imprecision as such doesn’t bother me—it’s spurious precision that I’m offended by.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’d rather that someone was accurately vague than precise but wrong. For example, I’d rather that a student or colleague said “I’ll be able to come and find you for ten minutes sometime between 4 and 5 o’clock” rather than “I’ll see you for ten minutes at 4 o’clock” and then show up at 4:45. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1155"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1285,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155\/revisions\/1285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}