Basically stating the fact that people fail to see the value in reinvestment of time and resources for improvement. Being Idle is not a failure but a way to think and be ready if a period of higher intensity comes. And it is healthy to have sometimes more time for a menial task.
People get so crazy about the idea of optimization, but fail to account for severe issues that arise when time is always occupied by something, which seems to happen more and more these days...
A corollary of this is the following paper
https://web.mit.edu/nelsonr/www/Repenning=Sterman_CMR_su01_....
Basically stating the fact that people fail to see the value in reinvestment of time and resources for improvement. Being Idle is not a failure but a way to think and be ready if a period of higher intensity comes. And it is healthy to have sometimes more time for a menial task.
People get so crazy about the idea of optimization, but fail to account for severe issues that arise when time is always occupied by something, which seems to happen more and more these days...