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I hear this argument/fact often, and while I'm certain that it's as true in the aggregate, I'm also certain that it ignores outliers. There are people who can
by latch 10y ago
I hear this argument/fact often, and while I'm certain that it's as true in the aggregate, I'm also certain that it ignores outliers.
There are people who can be productive (and happy) working more than 40 hours a week.
- samastur 10y agoSure, but doing what? And can you get a whole team of them? I very very much doubt you can when it comes to programming. I've been doing this for almost two decades and in this time have only known ONE person who might fit the bill.
- latch 10y agoI dunno, early Id Software seems like a good example. Personally, I think it directly relates to having people do something their passionate about. 20, 40, 80 hours...doesn't matter, getting a group of programmers excited and passionate about getting a taxi from point A to point B is probably unlikely. But get a group of people who grew up playing D&D and tell them to make it real...