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I absolutely agree with you. This is no hard work at all. Hard work is doing physical labor for 16 hours a day so that you can't think anymore of what the words

by WA 15y ago

I absolutely agree with you. This is no hard work at all. Hard work is doing physical labor for 16 hours a day so that you can't think anymore of what the words "hard work" even mean. Everything else is just eyewashing to feel a little better. The "hard work" is a mantra repeated over and over and over especially by entrepreneurs to a point that I really get sick of it. Entrepreneurs love that phrase and love the idea to think about themselves of being hard-working. Truth is, you don't need to be hard-working to be successful. Not at all. If you "work hard" (in the wishy-washy terms of how entrepreneurs use that phrase), you're doing it wrong. Edit: I want to add that we all should be glad that none of us really has to work hard to get decent money in the bank account. We should appreciate every day that our lives are so comfortable and that we have so much money that we aren't required to do the really hard work like our ancestors had to do. As long as everybody has the self-delusion of being hard-working, we can't appreciate the comfort we have and pay some true respect to the people who can't have the same wealth and comfort.

ghurlman 15y ago
I disagree - I did plenty of the 16-hour days of picking things up and putting them down before moving onto the white collar developer world, and I'll tell you -- there are plenty of days where this work is a lot harder. Harder on the body? On my back? No. More stressful? Harder on my mind, my life, and relationships? YES. Not every day, but we all know about those days. What constitutes "hard work" is different for everyone. I think the linked blog entry is mixing "hard work" with "lots of work", which is simply not the same.
- nostrademons 15y ago
  I like to think of "risk" and "work" as being orthogonal dimensions. Risk is uncertainty, when you don't know how what you're doing will turn out. Work is putting in the hours, being able to concentrate on a goal for long stretches of time. We get paid for doing things that other people don't want to do. It turns out that most people would rather work hard than take on additional risk; they at least know what to do when they work hard, and what they'll get for it. That means that taking on risk can be very professionally lucrative, but the problem is then you have to deal with uncertainty constantly.

by WA 15y ago

ghurlman 15y ago

I disagree - I did plenty of the 16-hour days of picking things up and putting them down before moving onto the white collar developer world, and I'll tell you -- there are plenty of days where this work is a lot harder. Harder on the body? On my back? No. More stressful? Harder on my mind, my life, and relationships? YES. Not every day, but we all know about those days. What constitutes "hard work" is different for everyone. I think the linked blog entry is mixing "hard work" with "lots of work", which is simply not the same.

nostrademons 15y ago
I like to think of "risk" and "work" as being orthogonal dimensions. Risk is uncertainty, when you don't know how what you're doing will turn out. Work is putting in the hours, being able to concentrate on a goal for long stretches of time. We get paid for doing things that other people don't want to do. It turns out that most people would rather work hard than take on additional risk; they at least know what to do when they work hard, and what they'll get for it. That means that taking on risk can be very professionally lucrative, but the problem is then you have to deal with uncertainty constantly.