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I'm not sure that working 16hrs per day vs 8hrs gives a 2x increase in productivity. Maybe not even 1.5x - maybe not even 1.2x. And even if it was a 2x increas
by mmatants 14y ago
I'm not sure that working 16hrs per day vs 8hrs gives a 2x increase in productivity. Maybe not even 1.5x - maybe not even 1.2x.
And even if it was a 2x increase in output, I'm not sure that that's an enabling variable in a startup's success.
- columbo 14y agoI agree. I may be an old codger but when I think back on all the 16+ hour days I've worked the vast majority fell into a few categories: 80% Fixing some stupid emergency drop everything issue that was somewhere between the user's keyboard and the oracle database. 19.99% Implementing some feature that got lost in the shuffle when clients are showing up tomorrow morning for a demo 0.01% Actually bringing the product forward and beating out the competition. Honestly, over fifteen years I can only think of a few days where I ended at 10pm and said "yeah, that was a good day, we really got ourselves ahead", more often than not it was "shit, at least we are barely above water." Of course YMMV