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Emotional imbalance and lessened productivity. More startups should really let their hackers work odd hours occasionally, or from home sometimes. As co's get
by sbraford 19y ago
Emotional imbalance and lessened productivity. More startups should really let their hackers work odd hours occasionally, or from home sometimes.
As co's get bigger they tend to enforce stricter day schedules, killing any potential for late night hackfests and flexibility to run errands, etc.
- maurycy 19y agoIt is not that simple. I've found there's set of tasks, particullary administration of *nix boxes, that are too boring to be made in day hours, so I schedule them to the night. On the other hand, I don't think that any startup can waste their founders' wake up hours. They're simply too effective to be spent on crappy things. What's interesting, most of the time management techniques tend to overlook this aspect.
- brianr 19y agoMost startups _do_, don't they? That was definitely the case at the company I worked at over the summer. My normal hours were something like noon-2am... all-nighters weren't too uncommon either. Sometimes you're too tired to be productive, but other times it seems you're just tired enough to really nail it down... sort of like Ballmer Peak (http://xkcd.com/323/ http://xkcd.com/323/)