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by alfredallan1
2904 days ago
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Even in software, the primary “advantage” of youth seems to be able to work much longer hours. But from my own experience, I wonder how much of those long hours are truly productive. At least in my own case, i often observe that the quality of the work I do early morning when I’m fresh is significantly better than what I do late at night, and that the late-night job is more liable to contain subtle bugs, thus often needing to be “polished” in the morning again. Additionally what I can finish in the last 4 hours at night (after a full days work) I can easily do in about 2 hours in the morning. So while there’s an egocentric feeling of satisfaction of wrapping something up before going to bed, from a pure productivity perspective I find it better to call it quits at a decent hour and take a fresh look in the morning. So recently, I’ve started to do things in a way that things that need to be created from scratch, or otherwise need more mental/intellectual involvement, I do them while I’m fresh, and reserve the more mundane things or interpersonal tasks (like meetings, etc.) for the later part of the day when I’m slightly tired. I wonder if any of this resonates with other peoples’ experiences. |
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The VC model is to fund a lot of sometimes wacky ideas, the founders live on ramen for a year or two and work out the kinks of the business model and code a prototype. You don't need seniority for this you just need people with open minds who work long hours so enthusiastic youngsters work great. If an investment achieves product market fit you start bringing on some more senior people at that point.