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> For example, it’s absolutely shocking that the common paradigm for engineers at Google is to come in at 11am and leave at 4pm. In no world can you be working

> For example, it’s absolutely shocking that the common paradigm for engineers at Google is to come in at 11am and leave at 4pm. In no world can you be working 5 hours a day and be giving a shit, and so the conclusion is that very little meaningful work gets done at Google. When I was a poker player, I learned that playing less meant earning more (per hour). Focus can only be sustained on the top-level for so long. When I played poker, I cared a lot. When I started working later, I noticed the same thing. The quality of focus is simply less. It's still valuable enough to produce something, but not to produce something top of line. Simply test yourself on the first hour with a difficult problem and on the eighth hour. Your first hour self will run circles around you. So I can imagine that there are very attuned HR professionals that know this and see this and want to take advantage of this. Rare they may be, I'd be one of them if I'd work in the field.

ZephyrBlu 6y ago
I agree with what you're saying, but not everything needs top quality focus. There are a lot of menial tasks you can do which don't require you to be super focused.
- lostcolony 6y ago
  They also tend to get done very quickly. Or aren't actually worth doing. I've yet to find a job, as an IC or manager, where I had 8 hours worth of tasks worth completing. Oh, there's usually -work- enough for 8 hours, every day, if I want, but it's actually a negative effect to try and do so. It means I'm getting involved in decisions I don't have all the context on, am not responsible for, and am not empowered to actually change (and thus just getting frustrated and probably pissing someone off), or I'm trying to work on something that requires buy in from other people, that hasn't been prioritized for them, so is going to die on the vine anyway (and, again, frustrate me and piss them off).

ZephyrBlu 6y ago

I agree with what you're saying, but not everything needs top quality focus. There are a lot of menial tasks you can do which don't require you to be super focused.

lostcolony 6y ago
They also tend to get done very quickly. Or aren't actually worth doing. I've yet to find a job, as an IC or manager, where I had 8 hours worth of tasks worth completing. Oh, there's usually -work- enough for 8 hours, every day, if I want, but it's actually a negative effect to try and do so. It means I'm getting involved in decisions I don't have all the context on, am not responsible for, and am not empowered to actually change (and thus just getting frustrated and probably pissing someone off), or I'm trying to work on something that requires buy in from other people, that hasn't been prioritized for them, so is going to die on the vine anyway (and, again, frustrate me and piss them off).