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Being a founder isn’t about writing code all day - you don’t have to be operating at full mental capacity to be getting stuff done. You spend a ton of time talk
by austenallred 8y ago
Being a founder isn’t about writing code all day - you don’t have to be operating at full mental capacity to be getting stuff done. You spend a ton of time talking to people, recruiting, writing emails, etc. IMO the notion that you can be more effective as a founder in < 8 hrs/day as if you work 8 hrs/day is a pleasant sounding falsehood.
I’m sure there are diminishing returns at some point, but I don’t think it’s before 8 hrs/day.
- icebraining 8y agoBeing a founder is irrelevant, he's talking about pushing his workers to work those hours, not about his personal schedule.
- austenallred 8y agoOk fair, but are you aware of any position that is devoid of administrative tasks or meetings? The hardest part of being in a company is almost always coordination and communication.
- icebraining 8y agoThat's exactly my point; he shouldn't expect 8-9h of productive time from his workers, because there are always administrative tasks and meetings (not to mention more lowly vital necessities), and so that implies they're basically living in the company.
- austenallred 8y agoThe problem is that HN doesn’t consider “vital necessities” productive when the author does
- yulaow 8y agoWasn't the author talking about all the people who work for him with "if people are working less than 8-10 productive hours per day"? If so I think he was also pretending the whole dev team should have 10hours/day of real productivity