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Some thinking-intensive work can bring you at the edge in just 3 hours a day. After that, you generate more problems than solutions. Especially mathematicians a

Some thinking-intensive work can bring you at the edge in just 3 hours a day. After that, you generate more problems than solutions. Especially mathematicians are prone to this. Similar cases in software development need to be respected.

tw1010 9y ago
Grothendieck worked twelve hours per day every day of the week for a decade. Source: https://math.stackexchange.com/a/874290/161054 https://math.stackexchange.com/a/874290/161054
- eecc 9y ago
  Yeah we should all - at he miminum - outperform a mathematical giant.
- s73ver_ 9y ago
  Good for him. I have no desire to sacrifice all of my free time to make someone else rich.
srtjstjsj 9y ago
3 hours of thinking-intensive work is fine. Then take lunch/walk/shower, and sit down to write documentation, update bug reports, chat with a coworker about your ideas, review someone else's code.....