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You know what’s worse than doing nothing because you have nothing to do? Doing nothing despite having something to do (that you want to do) but can’t do because you’re waiting on a client, or a manager, or maybe… waiting on a brain.
Whoops, scratch that last one.
Now I really feel as if I’m slacking off.
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Sounds like you’re experiencing what I am, just in a different setting (and for your sake, a shorter period of time). Exhibit A – “Time Off” post.
So today isn’t going much better because I still haven’t received any information yet. It’s just so much worse because I have somewhere else to be next week and I want to get this stuff of my desk… but I can’t…
The degree of responsibility of A (Jane) for B (getting stuff off of her desk) can be found using 1/(N + 1), where N is the minimal number of changes that have to be made to obtain a contingency where B counterfactually depends on A. (If A is not a cause of B, then the degree of responsibility is 0.)
Thus, the degree of responsibility measures to some extent whether or not there are other potential causes.
Excerpted from “Responsibility and Blame: A Structural-Model Approach” by Hana Chockler and Joseph Y. Halpern
lol nice.