From: Jay Corbett 09-Apr-1990 0928------------------------------------------------------------------------- MONDAY MORNING COFFEE Jay Corbett / / / / Beverage Development Laboratory (BDL) +------+ \ \ \ \ University of Massachusetts, Amherst /@@@@@@/| / / / / +------+ + ________ We are experimenting with ways to improve | |/ \ / ] the productivity trough which occurs after +------+ -------- a period of prolonged work deprivation (aka a weekend). We have recorded that productivity rebounds proportionally to caffeine intake after such periods [CKW89]. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Too much text. No one's going to read all that. You should have short sentence fragments--- Problem: low productivity, Solution: bullet, coffee, bullet, doughnuts, bullet, bagels." "I don't get any sense of flow. . . Am I suppose to look at the coffee first, the box of doughnuts?" "What's the project's name? Where's you're advisor's name? What are the potential uses of this research? How much do the doughnuts cost? WHAT! How can you get away with charging that much??"