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I think there is a comparison to be made about pushing past the monotonous work required to launch a product.

• dtf 16y ago
  I'd say its worse. At least when running you have endorphins and hormones to help you out over the course of your few hours of "pain". Launching a product involves months or more of numbing drudgery, self-doubt and incertitude about whether a finish-line even exists, with coffee the pitiful substitute pick-me-up. Try that, runners!
• jerf 16y ago
  I dunno, this sounds like a terrible way to develop. We often say coding is a marathon, not a sprint, but even then, it's a marathon that lasts months or years, not a few hours. And your brain is not a muscle, no matter how many superficial similarities there may be. The boundary between "stretching your limits" and "pushing into burnout territory" is not something you can feel very easily. An interesting article on its own merits, certainly, but trying to translate this philosophy directly into an approach to mental work sounds to me like a recipe for burnout, not a recipe for extreme performance gains. And by the time you're done tweaking it to actually work on the brain, you might as well have just started directly with an approach tuned to the brain, starting with this stuff will only have hurt you.