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But again the results this article cites point in the opposite direction: "... research shows that knowledge workers actually have fewer good hours in a day th
by edj 14y ago
But again the results this article cites point in the opposite direction:
"... research shows that knowledge workers actually have fewer good hours in a day than manual laborers do — on average, about six hours, as opposed to eight."
- rdl 14y ago"Knowledge worker" in a study cited from Alternet is probably "programmer at a large soul-sucking corporation." Startup founder is fundamentally different.
- Joeri 14y agoWhy? What is different?
- dsr_ 14y agoMotivation. Motivation to build what you really want to build is completely different from being motivated to work for a salary to avoid starvation and keep your family going.
- rdl 14y agoMotivation, and particularly knowing exactly how the work you will do will benefit (yourself, your friends, your company, the industry, society). I imagine it's a lot easier being a doctor who is actually helping individual people squeeze in one more patient, vs. spend overtime filling in paperwork. Same difference between working on an awesome product where you have total visibility into the whole process, vs. beng a cog in a much larger wheel.