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Old 01-13-2009, 01:59 PM
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TZK* was noted for that phrase. The new crop is not quite so full of it as he was, though.

* (If you haven't read any of TZK's babblings, you have missed a very strange experience.)
i knew it was a TZK thing but i could never read through those posts... i have seen the systems thinkers reference a few times recently and was wondering what was generally meant by that.
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Old 01-13-2009, 02:08 PM
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Oh! I remember!
Note to self: Don't eat the food on food days at work any more. I felt my lunch was lacking some fruits and veggies, and decided to get some from the food day. I walked in on someone double dipping in the ranch.
Was that wrong? Should I have not done that? I tell you I gotta plead ignorance on this thing because if anyone had said anything to me at all when I first started here that that sort of thing was frowned upon, you know, cause I've worked in a lot of offices and I tell you people do that all the time.
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Old 01-13-2009, 02:10 PM
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i knew it was a TZK thing but i could never read through those posts... i have seen the systems thinkers reference a few times recently and was wondering what was generally meant by that.
Yep. The kind of person who posts like that is a genuine system thinker. One of TZK's explanations for why he was right and the whole world was wrong involved the fact that TZK was a systems thinker.
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Old 01-13-2009, 02:15 PM
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Was that wrong? Should I have not done that? I tell you I gotta plead ignorance on this thing because if anyone had said anything to me at all when I first started here that that sort of thing was frowned upon, you know, cause I've worked in a lot of offices and I tell you people do that all the time.
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actually it made me cry. i hate crying when i'm at work.
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I wonder if anyone really does have fun being banned. You know, they can't post on the AO so they do something else for a while and something awesome happens to them. That would be sweet.
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Old 01-13-2009, 02:22 PM
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I wonder if anyone really does have fun being banned. You know, they can't post on the AO so they do something else for a while and something awesome happens to them. That would be sweet.
I think it's one of those things where if you took away stuff that you waste your time on, you get more accomplished!
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Old 01-13-2009, 02:26 PM
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I think it's one of those things where if you took away stuff that you waste your time on, you get more accomplished!
That doesn't sound like much fun. There must be something else to it.
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Old 01-13-2009, 02:37 PM
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I think it's one of those things where if you took away stuff that you waste your time on, you get more accomplished!
That's being more productive. I'm talking about something fun and awesome happening so the person thinks, wow I totally had fun being banned.
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Old 01-13-2009, 03:05 PM
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That's being more productive. I'm talking about something fun and awesome happening so the person thinks, wow I totally had fun being banned.
Being productive in life isn't fun?
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