I'm sure as hell not going to manage 120 hours but this week is kinda supposed to be an intense crunch week for me. I'm mostly failing to do that so far. I wonder if I could just really lean into it.
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I do sometimes (often) wonder if my life would be better and I just embraced this attitude in a sort of one week on / two weeks off way: https://blog.nickwinter.net/posts/the-120-hour-workweek-epic-coding-time-lapse … I have the flexibility to do it and tend to have long lapses where I totally fail at productivity anyway.
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I think part of the problem is that I like my work but it's not really something that I want to dedicate my life to, and it sure as hell doesn't pay me enough that I'd be doing it without intrinsic motivation, so I end up just dragging my feet on it out of vague resentment.
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But is it worth a third of my life if that lets me just really spend the other 2/3rds how I want? Y'know, it might be.
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It's a tough feat to do, true. But sometimes needed if necessary. Best way to do it: not alone. By working with 2 or more people, you get your overcapacity risks (i.e. memory loss) hedged. More people, more security but there's a diminishing point of return.
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I think I'd much prefer to do this alone than with a group. It feels like I'd succeed at this to the degree that I managed to hyperfocus and being around people tends to impair that.
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ember: this sounds like the sort of thing we could only pull off by going through our 6 week average supply of adderall in one, and getting lucky that our mood stayed mostly closer to hypomanic than depressive. also we'd probably refuse to code for another year or two afterwards
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I think I would actually really enjoy this lifestyle, but my life isn't set up for it at all right now.
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Good question. I often have good results when I plunge myself into something, and when I actually make time to relax. But previously I've tried to adjust to bring able to work on something for some time, then stop.
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try it?
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Yeah, I might. I'm in crunch mode this week anyway so functionally I'm already doing it, thought under far from ideal conditions.
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