noknockers

Been to snapper?

100%.

Depends on where you surf though. All these questions and answers are completely location dependent. If you're at a super crowded break (like where I live) it's every man for themselves. Your best friend will burn you if they see you falter for even a millisecond.

That's not really how it works in the surfing world. Purely from an observational standpoint it's actually quite amusing to watch the natural, land based pecking order get completely flipped on its head in the water. Young punks calling out police men, stoners and hippies telling CEOs to beat it, sponsored kids 'owning' the break etc.

There's definitely a completely separate water-based hierarchy, based 100% on how good you surf.

To answer your question:

>Why should I need the permission and tacit approval of "the regulars" to choose to start surfing?

You don't need anyones permission at all, but you have to remember surfing is not a team sport, you're competing with everyone else out there to catch a limited amount of waves in the time you have. Couple that with flat days, bad winds, bad swell direction, bad tides and limited time, it's not often you score it 'on', so everyone it's out there to get their share.

So you don't need permission, but don't expect people to be happy with you.. and if you drop in or snake someone (steal their wave) then expect to have even less friends.

>On the face of the article: No, I wholeheartedly disagree. Less is not more and don't believe anyone telling you that. This guy is claiming that now that he has less time he is 6X better at his job due to 'unconscious cognition'.

I think becoming a parent, like everything in life, just taught him some lessons: How to manage his time and looking at the big picture often puts things into perspective. Both these things help with efficiency.

It's almost identical to what I went (and still going) through with having kids. I got much better at 'mind hacking'. I could be playing with the kids or making dinner or whatever and my mind is hacking away at solution to problems.

In addition to this, even those of us who sit at a computers for 7-8 hours a day and then spend the rest of our time doing other activities.

I try and go surfing every week day, and most of the weekend, and i don't want to be bothered with taking time out to eat (i've got 2 kids too - so I don't have much time). Sure I can easily go grab some junk food and eat on the go but I really don't want to when I'm trying to keep my body in good shape.

I usually mix a bunch of raw nuts, raisins, fruit/berries, yogurt into a smoothy and have that as food. but it still requires time to make a clean up, not to mention the cost of fruit and nuts. Dinner is usually cooked by my wife, so that's not an issue for me because it's time with the family.

It's a bad sign. I also read them and thought they were something new I hadn't heard of. I didn't even click until I saw your comment.

Which company would ever stop this from happening? More breakages = more money.

I wonder if the apology would still be there is the community kneejerk reaction never happened.

I've always thought guns need keys, just like an automobile. You have to turn them on before use. The gun is useless without it.

So you're saying that you're pissed off because they're working on a free app for you, for a free service for you?

The interruption issue has plagued me for the last 10 years. Firstly working at home with flatmates or wife, then with children and now at an office next to the marketing team.

Instead of trying to fight the interruptions themselves, I decided to try and become better/faster at context switching by training myself to compartmentalize the jobs on hand (programming/helping kids/answering questions).

It took a while to figure it out and i'm still getting better at it, but so far it works pretty well and I can jump between contexts much better than i could before. When I get interrupted, I'll take a snapshot of where i am, store it away and 'switch' to the new issue.