While long hours can't be a goal, I worry that it's easy to mislead. As a descriptive matter, creating Stripe required obsessive intensity. Maybe better founders could have worked "smarter", but I do know that long hours were needed for *us* to build something great.https://twitter.com/alexmuench/status/1135634277058715648 …
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It's not always viewed as a flaw though. And there's a definite pattern to the people who see it as a flaw and the people who don't.
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Totally agree, the degree to which it's seen as a flaw is rather predictive.
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It's a ridiculous comparison. Pro athletes don't work on their games 16 hours a day. Most pro athletes get at least 10 hours of sleep a night - LeBron and Federer average 12 hours of sleep. They recognize the need for downtime and recuperation. Businesspeople don't.
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The point of comparison relates to how much they're respectively admired or reviled (by the general public) for their single-minded focus and obsessiveness.
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It's viewed as a defect when it involves salaried people. It's viewed as admirable when it involves people building their own fortune.
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No. Absolutely bad take. These are salaried employees. If *you* want to work 900 hours/wk, great. But your employees might be passionate about something like, idk, their children. Or their hobbies that don't pay.
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Which is fine. But people aren't being forced to work long hours, as far as I know. It's a conscious choice they made. Shouldn't there exist companies where the norm is to work long hours? Everyone selects themselves into the workplace for them.
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It is about who gets the surplus. It is not a bad idea if you own the thing. If not, wait till you realize you sacrificed your life for others. That said, the system is skewed so much that you may still be good, if in the US.
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Mind that pro athletes also rest a lot and those at the peak take extremely good care of the body. Business-wise it's similar - you can work 16+h/day but on the long run you're most likely to get sick/burned out, allienated from f&f and not even that much productive.
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LeBron's an extreme case, but imagine biz folk prioritizing and taking care of their physical *and* mental health this way. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.businessinsider.com/lebron-james-body-care-workouts-diet-insane-2017-10 …
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