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Chronobias
(n.)
The lingering belief that the quality of work must be measured by how long it takes.
The team held off sending the report for two days, to avoid triggering their biggest client's chronobias.
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Coinage notes
Greek chronos, time, + bias; grounded in the fact we don’t yet know how to value an excellent piece of work that took ten minutes to create in a world where so much of work is measured and compensated on an hourly basis.
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