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> Nobody who spends significant amounts of time with valley programmers believes that the 10-hour-day 6-day-a-week people are, in general, spending all that tim
by emmab 9y ago
> Nobody who spends significant amounts of time with valley programmers believes that the 10-hour-day 6-day-a-week people are, in general, spending all that time productively.
I've probably worked that much before during hypomanic episodes. I can't keep it up indefinitely though.
- FooHentai 9y agoThose particular personal projects that hit the sweet spot and lead me on a 2-week, barely-coming-up-for-air frenzy of creation? Yeah, I'll put in that much work and more in one stretch. The odds of hitting that level of flow on a paid work project? Sure I care, but it's never going to meet the criteria and get that far under my skin. I can believe in the merits of a goal/project to the highest degree, but if it's not scratching the particular itch that takes me into the zone, I get some kind of x-factor, then I'll never be able to hit the 100% flow state for any significant period of time. Just personal experience, I think there are others who are far more capable of getting 100% into that kind of work.