tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30831203.post1157251709605430643..comments2023-09-19T04:34:22.298-04:00Comments on Vana Jezebel: Process vs. Product (revised)Pamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16632245438511998562noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30831203.post-38916589063029793422008-07-17T21:22:00.000-04:002008-07-17T21:22:00.000-04:00I've always been so strongly process based that I ...I've always been so strongly process based that I almost never finish a thing. I have so many little projects around the house that I've started, thoroughly loved working on, and abandoned, probably partly because that would mean I couldn't tinker with it anymore.<BR/><BR/>Makes it hard at work in a way, as I move into more product type responsibilities. I <I>have</I> to finish these things, much as I would prefer to tweak and putter.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11698061933050789168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30831203.post-12815210798531660362008-07-17T17:05:00.000-04:002008-07-17T17:05:00.000-04:00One of the big turning points in my life was learn...One of the big turning points in my life was learning to treasure process. For me, when I stop worrying about the finish line and concentrate on where I am-when I start *loving* the thing I'm doing *while I'm doing it*-things go much better overall. Love is a verb.Andrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02083802530672100896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30831203.post-35027758643450525992008-07-17T13:43:00.000-04:002008-07-17T13:43:00.000-04:00I am product. I live for product. The process is o...I am product. I live for product. The process is one big long marathon of repeatedly convincing myself that I don't need to drink in order to work.<BR/><BR/>There are the occasional moments in the process that I love, as an ethnographer. I love being in the moment of an interview. I love just being there with another person, trying to learn whatever they have to give me, without obsessing right then about what the finished product will be. Then I start transcribing the interview and feel a mounting sense of hopelessness that this will ever be synthesized into anything coherent, ever.<BR/><BR/>The only thing that keeps me going the fact that I haves successfully finished things in the past, and during the process of every one of those things I had despair that it would ever come to anything. After I have the finished product in my hand, I retroactively develop a great sense of respect for process.Stephhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03013628807611348775noreply@blogger.com