atucker comments on The trouble with teamwork - Less Wrong

10 Post author: Swimmer963 23 March 2011 06:05PM

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Comment author: atucker 24 March 2011 01:10:59AM 0 points [-]

I find that its better to know that you're going to do a lot of work and plan for that than to be surprised when you find at the very end that someone didn't pull their weight, and you wind up cramming to do it.

Both ways you do the samish amount of work, but in the first way you can actually deal with it on your schedule.

Comment author: Swimmer963 24 March 2011 02:57:57AM 0 points [-]

I do a lot of my work at the last minute anyway, since I a) try to pretend school doesn't exist a lot of the time, and b) focus better when I have a tight deadline. Which is why I ran into trouble with this group project, but it makes it easier to deal with other groups where last-minute cramming ends up happening.