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The author lost me when he started talking about "10x work." I don't need to be more productive. I accomplish plenty in both my work life and my real life. If
by bovermyer 2y ago
The author lost me when he started talking about "10x work."
I don't need to be more productive. I accomplish plenty in both my work life and my real life. If anything, I need to accomplish fewer things and spend more time living in the moment.
- pjc50 2y agoIndeed. Are you going to get 10x pay for 10x work? No. Very rarely, for certain types of contractor. But this particular type of hustle culture is more like buying 10x lottery tickets - you do get 10x more chances to hit it big, but from a low baseline.
- jimbokun 2y ago> Are you going to get 10x pay for 10x work? If you own the company, quite possibly yes. Otherwise, very very unlikely.
- RankingMember 2y agoThis weird obsession with "10x work" is very off-putting to me, hustle culture nonsense still infecting people.
- rchaud 2y agoThe author is a Silicon Valley venture capitalist, so this is exactly the sort of thing they look to cultivate.
- OJFord 2y agoAlthough if I were, I could stop at noon on Monday and do something for me the rest of the week? (If only it worked like that! Suppose it somewhat does if you're self-employed, sole trader something or another. But realistically even then there's customers or something, some external factor that needs at least some work most days or at a moment's notice.)
- jimbokun 2y agoThen this article doesn't apply to you.
- bovermyer 2y agoReading things that don't necessarily apply directly to oneself can still be informative, and possibly establish other connections by virtue of secondary points.