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These are absurd expectations. Very few people are able to pull more that 8 hours a day consistently without sharp decline of productivity. With me - after 4-5

These are absurd expectations. Very few people are able to pull more that 8 hours a day consistently without sharp decline of productivity. With me - after 4-5 hours in the flow - I am done, squeezed like a lemon. The only benefit after that is for task that require very out of the box thinking - when i am sleepy dead tired etc the crazy stuff comes on its own. The thing I am most proud of inventing came at 3 am.

skore 13y ago
> With me - after 4-5 hours in the flow - I am done, squeezed like a lemon. That's what I'm currently trying to establish for myself - 4 to 5 hours of work a day tops. I used to think that I could do more, used to work hard on trying to do more, but the truth is pretty simple. If you want to get more done, you need to become more efficient, not work longer hours. And structure your life around those 4-5 hours so that within them, you are able to deliver. I recommend limiting work hours to everybody these days, but it seems that the mindset is simply too ingrained. > The only benefit after that is for task that require very out of the box thinking [...] when i am sleepy dead tired etc [...] Maybe those "you need to put in more than 10 hours a day" people should switch to 4 hours of work, plus a full-out boxing match plus 1 hour of "crazy stuff" work? Next up on News At Ten - The crazy new crossover trend sweeping through Silicon Valley: A breakthrough mixture of Extreme Programming and Fight Club that has blue collar workers eyes twitching.
thrownaway2424 13y ago
Key phrase: in the flow. If the people I work with would shut their traps when in the office I'd get everything I get done in an 8-hour day today done in 2-3 hours, tops. I find that the people who appear to love to work 100 hours a week are the ones doing most of the yapping.
- untog 13y ago
  I find that the people who appear to love to work 100 hours a week are the ones doing most of the yapping. Part of this is when your work life becomes your social life. Particularly in startups, being at work can be a mix of actual work and chatting, getting lunch, having a drink and a good time. It's difficult, because you do spend more time with these people than you do most others. Nowadays I work somewhere where we just go to a bar after work. Much simpler.
  - lsc 13y ago
    >Part of this is when your work life becomes your social life. Particularly in startups, being at work can be a mix of actual work and chatting, getting lunch, having a drink and a good time. But they still count that all as work time, which is... silly, and brings lie to this idea that you can productively work 80+ hour weeks. Just hanging out with the gang at the office isn't work. I mean, if you count 'being around people who are employees of the company' as work, it is actually fairly rare that I don't work a 20+ hour day.
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skore 13y ago

> With me - after 4-5 hours in the flow - I am done, squeezed like a lemon. That's what I'm currently trying to establish for myself - 4 to 5 hours of work a day tops. I used to think that I could do more, used to work hard on trying to do more, but the truth is pretty simple. If you want to get more done, you need to become more efficient, not work longer hours. And structure your life around those 4-5 hours so that within them, you are able to deliver. I recommend limiting work hours to everybody these days, but it seems that the mindset is simply too ingrained. > The only benefit after that is for task that require very out of the box thinking [...] when i am sleepy dead tired etc [...] Maybe those "you need to put in more than 10 hours a day" people should switch to 4 hours of work, plus a full-out boxing match plus 1 hour of "crazy stuff" work? Next up on News At Ten - The crazy new crossover trend sweeping through Silicon Valley: A breakthrough mixture of Extreme Programming and Fight Club that has blue collar workers eyes twitching.

thrownaway2424 13y ago

Key phrase: in the flow. If the people I work with would shut their traps when in the office I'd get everything I get done in an 8-hour day today done in 2-3 hours, tops. I find that the people who appear to love to work 100 hours a week are the ones doing most of the yapping.

untog 13y ago
I find that the people who appear to love to work 100 hours a week are the ones doing most of the yapping. Part of this is when your work life becomes your social life. Particularly in startups, being at work can be a mix of actual work and chatting, getting lunch, having a drink and a good time. It's difficult, because you do spend more time with these people than you do most others. Nowadays I work somewhere where we just go to a bar after work. Much simpler.
- lsc 13y ago
  >Part of this is when your work life becomes your social life. Particularly in startups, being at work can be a mix of actual work and chatting, getting lunch, having a drink and a good time. But they still count that all as work time, which is... silly, and brings lie to this idea that you can productively work 80+ hour weeks. Just hanging out with the gang at the office isn't work. I mean, if you count 'being around people who are employees of the company' as work, it is actually fairly rare that I don't work a 20+ hour day.
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