Is this Play? or is this Work?

Is this PLAY?

or

Is this WORK?

(What’s the difference?

What’s the relationship?)

To call into question  what is

being done and how  is always

demoralizing and  interferes

with the getRdone  agenda. 

The situation is something like

Heisenberg’ Indeterminacy: you

can measure position or you can

measure velocity—but not both

simultaneously. 

Imagine attempting a road trip

to Santa Cruz. Half way there

you start questioning what you

are doing and how and why. 

Interferes with your progress,

although it might be good for

your PROGRESS overall.

These two values (questioning

it, getting it done) are “hostile.”

They are also complementary. 

But which  dominates? 

The gettingRdone or the

questioning-procedures? 

My courses are all geared to one

of  these 2 values – at the expense

of  the other.  For good and for ill,

no doubt.

Play for some. Work for others.

Or as my students will  always say,

“It depends, Sam.  “It depends.”