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Comment author: lukeprog 09 February 2014 09:18:36PM 3 points [-]

I'm seeing a lot of things claiming that over the long run, people can't increase their output by working much more than 40 hours per week.

I think this is just false. It seems to me that lots of people work long hours throughout their entire career, with output much higher than if they only worked 40 hrs/wk. But I haven't looked into studies.

Comment author: ChrisHallquist 09 February 2014 09:51:01PM 0 points [-]

Thanks, Luke. Updating in this direction.

However, I worry that while there seem to be lots of people who work long hours throughout their career and are much more successful than most people are as a result, I wonder how much of this is those people having higher output, and how much is those people becoming successful through signaling.

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