If you want to spread philosophy XYZ in the business world, you have to prove that it can make money. The reason we originally shifted from 60 hour weeks to 40

If you want to spread philosophy XYZ in the business world, you have to prove that it can make money. The reason we originally shifted from 60 hour weeks to 40 hour weeks was nothing moralistic, it was because Ford found that 40 hour weeks were more profitable than 60 hour weeks. Now as a rule, programmers generally are good at execution but tend to execute on problems no one cares about. The #1 cause of startup failure is not failure to execute-it's good execution on a problem that nobody cares about. That's why non-technical VPs earn so much. It's because the skill of picking great problems and managing people is massively valuable. If it weren't, then all the companies that emphasized market over technology would go bankrupt, and companies that emphasized technology over market would succeed. Now, someone who can understand what people want and understand what's possible with technology is significantly more valuable than someone with either individual skill. That's because they can combine what's valuable and what's just become possible. This is a rare combination-Steve Jobs and Elon Musk are two people who've executed this really well. My personal plan is to learn this combination of skills and drive technology that's both extremely valuable and at the very edge of what's possible. We'll see how far I get.