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Over the last 3 years with the I’ve really come to appreciate the power of committing a small amount of weekly time over a long period. If you have 10 hours to spare for me, I’ll pretty much always pick an hour a week for 10 weeks over 10 hours in 1 day .
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Lifestyles tend to be stable for 3-5y at a time. If you commit 1 hour/wk indefinitely, that’s implicitly 150-250 hours if it sticks. Equal to 4-6 weeks of full-time, but that’s harder to use 🤔 An hour is optimal. Can’t do much with 15-30min, but >1h calls for too much org/prep.
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It *sounds* powerful to get 4-6 weeks full-time commitment from a talented person (especially skilled ones who can code or design etc) but it’s actually useless because 4-6 weeks means you can create something complex enough to need maintenance/follow through.
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I’d rather have you in back-burner “maintenance” mode where you do what you can an hour a week. Older people have more stable lives and are more easily able to commit to such patterns which is why, interestingly enough, YC has skewed older than most things I’ve been involved in
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Another interesting difference is that people who show up week after week with drip-irrigation levels of attention are able to do very different things (and *cannot* do other sorts of things calling for intense efforts). These things tend to feature infinite-game intentions.
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This also favors older people. Younger people (understandably) have highly time-sensitive demands on attention, to “make it” in their careers/dating etc. Older people tend to have satisfied these demands somewhat and are more into “rest of my life” inexhaustible activities.
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