My trajectory has been pretty similar to Raemon's. In my early-to-mid 20s, I worked around 4 hours per day, because I had very little interest in the stuff our company was building, and I measured (via our bug tracker) that my coworkers were getting less done than I was, so I felt I wouldn't get called out as a lazy ass.
In my late 20s I founded an online marketplace, which required working around 12 hours per day, 6 days per week from 27-32. My "secret" to putting in these kind of hours was that I was poor, and if the startup failed, it was going to ... (read more)
My trajectory has been pretty similar to Raemon's. In my early-to-mid 20s, I worked around 4 hours per day, because I had very little interest in the stuff our company was building, and I measured (via our bug tracker) that my coworkers were getting less done than I was, so I felt I wouldn't get called out as a lazy ass.
In my late 20s I founded an online marketplace, which required working around 12 hours per day, 6 days per week from 27-32. My "secret" to putting in these kind of hours was that I was poor, and if the startup failed, it was going to ... (read more)