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Putting in time is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for progress. In a modern tech business, there is an endless supply of things that could be improv
by A1kmm 13y ago
Putting in time is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for progress. In a modern tech business, there is an endless supply of things that could be improved, and available human resource is the limiting factor.
I find that having a roughly fixed number of hours of work is useful in the long run to balance burnout from working too many hours against not working to your full potential.
My productivity per hour goes down as I work more hours, but unless I am really tired each additional unit of time still provides a (diminishing) positive return.
Thinking that you have been really productive and can slack off for the rest of the day is a dangerous trap to fall into if you want to work at your full potential - it is better to use the positive mood you get from making progress and use it to motivate you to make even more progress.
- dingaling 13y agoI suppose that depends whether one is driven to be productive at 'work', or productive ex-work. If I've achieved my work goals for a day / other accounting period, there is no further reward for me pushing-on to achieve more. I'd rather use that remaining energy for my own personal goals. So I don't see it as a trap, quite the opposite; use that positive mood to go and fix the leaky faucet, or whatever.
- kybernetikos 13y agoIf you were paid per hour, at some point the marginal increase in productive work got for the hour would be swamped by the fixed costs of just hiring another person and getting some 'fresh' hours out of them.