[krembanan]

I've always been confused by this, as most studies show around 5~ hours a day is the maximum your brain can do work that requires deep focus (programming etc). So what are these people doing where they can work 10+ hours days? You will see seriously diminishing (and often negative) results when overworking. You'll end up waking up the next morning cleaning up and fixing bugs from your overworked brain.

[captainbland]

A lot of people who claim to be like this seem to tweet a suspiciously large amount.

[BeFlatXIII]

Or discuss it on Hacker News.

[cvhashim]

Musk for example -_-

[121789]

I think there's a significant amount of work that only needs to get done rather than needing deep focus, and this is especially true if you have tight deadlines. I know I could pretty easily fill up 10 hours of a working day on average. I just don't want to.

[sharadov]

Lots of "busy" work - meetings, answering questions on slack, constant interruptions. Before you know the day is done.

[carimura]

that's assuming the day is entirely deep work. it's not. lots of work is shallow work. not that I support grinding down at the expense of health/happiness, but for most people there's an unlimited amount of things that can go into the TODO.

[compiler-guy]

They aren't deep focusing during the other five hours, they are communicating with the team, holding meetings, planning things and whatever else.