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John Carmack is very passionate about what he does and you'd likely have a hard time convincing him not to do it. Case in point is that he's still working despi
by micromacrofoot 3y ago
John Carmack is very passionate about what he does and you'd likely have a hard time convincing him not to do it. Case in point is that he's still working despite likely being rich enough not to.
Most people are working jobs they wouldn't necessarily be doing at all if they had some other means of paying the bills. This is who people are talking about when 4 day work weeks come up.
- nonethewiser 3y agoBut do you think you would accomplish more by working 4 days instead of 5?
- chasd00 3y agomaybe a better question to ask is can you accomplish the same by working less? If so then working less would be fine.
- nonethewiser 3y agoIf you complete X amount of work in 5 days, then switch to 4 days and still complete X amount of work, then it seems like you can actually complete X + X/5 in 5 days instead of X. I'm not arguing how much you should or shouldn't work. I'm just pushing back against the non-sense that people actually accomplish more by working less.
- sseagull 3y agoThought experiment: someone is forced to work 23 hours a day with 1 hour for sleep, 7 days a week. They will likely be fairly productive the first day, but eventually their productivity per day will be zero as they are too tired to function. Over, say, a month, their productivity will be, lets say, 40 hours (wild guess, maybe 20 hours one day, then a scattering the rest of the month). Now how about who someone works 4 hours a day, 5 days a week. They are likely productive those 4 hours, and able to sustain that the entire month. So they get 80 hours of productive work done, even though they 'worked less'. Now those are extremes, but literally working less in this case results in higher productivity in the long run. Now where that point is depends on very many variables (including individual biology, social responsibilities, and type of work). But such a point does exist where working more hours results in less productivity.
- SketchySeaBeast 3y agoThis seems like we're now arguing the mythical man hour.
- pseudalopex 3y agoSome of us ran the experiment.
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- micromacrofoot 3y agoI’d get the same amount of work done and use my time to do something else I could probably get all my required work done in 3 days if I were incentivized to