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> it shocked me when I read, "a handful of young men are eagerly banging away on keyboards late on a Saturday afternoon" It's not so unreasonable to work on a
by michaelkeenan 11y ago
> it shocked me when I read, "a handful of young men are eagerly banging away on keyboards late on a Saturday afternoon"
It's not so unreasonable to work on a Saturday afternoon. As PG says, "If you’re ever unsure if you should be doing what you’re doing during YC, ask yourself this question: ‘Am I building our product? Am I talking to users? Am I exercising?’. if you’re not doing one of these things, you’re doing the wrong thing."
> Crunch does not make for efficiency. Look at EA if you want to see what crunch does
I don't know much about EA but their stock value seems okay:
https://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&chvs=maximized&chdeh=0&chfdeh=0&chdet=1438113600000&chddm=2568780&chls=IntervalBasedLine&q=NASDAQ:EA&ntsp=0&ei=FhO_VbDaMLH2iQLPy6D4Aw https://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&...
(Though if the recent rise is due to changed policies around crunchtime, that would be really interesting and I'd love to learn about that.)
- superuser2 11y agoThese young men were employees, not owners.
- pjc50 11y agoStock value seems okay Stock value being, of course, the only moral determinant here. Even if you're using employees as a consumable, ea_spouse passim.