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I simply can't put in more than ~20 hours of productive work per week anyway. Yes, I used to sit at my desk in the office, but I was basically doing nothing and
by darkhorse13 5y ago
I simply can't put in more than ~20 hours of productive work per week anyway. Yes, I used to sit at my desk in the office, but I was basically doing nothing and just wasting time. Either I'm just lazy (highly likely), or there is a cap for the number of productive hours you can spend doing creative work.
- Shaanie 5y agoFor me it depends a lot on what kind of work it is. Architecture/design/troubleshooting or other mentally taxing work I agree fully, maybe 4h after lunch per day. I can easily put in 40h+ of productive work when implementing straightforward solutions though (coding, documentation, testing etc).
- DaedPsyker 5y agoI would agree. I can easily put hours into straight programming when there is clear designs and goals. Actually designing the program though can just get exhausting. I won't discount personality differences but I've certainly seen it enough in others that I figure there is some sort of mental limit. A lot of discussion on automation is on removing the tedious, basic stuff so we can focus on the more difficult mental tasks. I do wonder though if perhaps we won't get as big a benefit as we think just due our nature.
- pvitz 5y agoDirac worked four hours in the morning and then had fun the rest of the day. He would have agreed with you and it paid off for him ;)