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Let me summarize: "I usually slack off half the day. I realized I could move all my slacking to the second half of the day, and viola, 4 hour workday! I'm geniu

• hvs 18y ago
  Exactly. I freely admit that I don't work every minute of every day, but that's because you need to take breaks in order to refocus and mull over what you are working on. You can't cut the time you work in half (which for me often includes evenings and weekends) and expect to get the same amount done. The "extra" work that you add is often work that was unforseen when you started but became necessary as you understood the problem better.
• wynand 18y ago
  I doubt that anyone gets twice as much work done in 8 hours as opposed to 4. This is like saying that you get 50% more work in when working 12 hours as opposed to 8. The real problem in knowledge industries as far as I can see is that too many people work more than 8 hours per day.
• bricestacey 18y ago
  The article freely admits that you can easily fill more time with more tasks and do more work. But that's not the point. The point is to have clear business goals, work to accomplish them, be satisfied when done, and stop working. I imagine for most hacker types, that is generally not acceptable. However, personal development bloggers that rehash old ideas from Zen Habits is not very challenging work.