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I recently did a Startup Weekend and coded basically non-stop for a couple days. Afterwards I felt great, like my skills were being used to their fullest; and I
by samd 16y ago
I recently did a Startup Weekend and coded basically non-stop for a couple days. Afterwards I felt great, like my skills were being used to their fullest; and I had created something significant. It wasn't until days later that burn-out set it; but I wasn't burned-out from working all weekend, I was burned-out from my day job. How little real, valuable work I did at my day job compared to what I did during the weekend made me feel worthless and insignificant.
Paul Graham has talked about how heavy a work-load starting a startup is, and how much founders enjoy it compared to life at a big company in spite of it. I was skeptical at first, and thought that you had to be some super-human workaholic to handle it, but it turns out creating value is really enjoyable and fulfilling. It's a different kind of work, a kind that invigorates you rather than drains you.
- thesz 16y agoI once read in Russian LJ that the main block for productivity is an alienation of work. The more work is alienated, the little there is incentive to do it, the bigger is productivity drain. Because Marx primarily thought about work efficiency, the ultimate society is communism. Communism is where no work gets alienated. Every work result is owned by producer (or creator), but he is willing to share it to the world as it is norm there, in communist utopia. So the productivity is as high as it could get. For me, startup culture is about reducing that alienation. I am not an expert, it's just a thought I want to share. ;)