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Most employees aren't capable of 40hrs/week of intellectual output.
by theparanoid 9y ago
Most employees aren't capable of 40hrs/week of intellectual output.
- gdulli 9y agoThere might be some technical accuracy to that but it's a lame and self-defeating thing to rest on as the basis for your career strategy. I'm sitting here at work typing this reply to you. It's not about using every hour, it's about fundamentally seeing your output as malleable instead of fixed based on your manager's "targets" and seeing yourself as responsible for your level production. Most of my time (and much of my team's time) is spent on projects that were my idea. It wasn't that way at the start of my career but I've always works towards taking control.
- metaphorm 9y agowhat you just said is completely orthogonal to the comment you're replying to. self-directed vs. manager-directed is a separate concern from whether or not a programmer can be expected to put in 40 hours of high focus, high concentration technical work per week. in my experience getting 20-30 high focus hours in a week is a very good week. the rest of the time has to be used for things that are much less focused. like arguing about this shit on hacker news, for example. it's not even an either/or scenario. you need to do both. just like when breathing you have to both inhale and exhale.
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