[lcrz]

Not so sound too negative, but to me, this actually seems terrible. Because somehow any work not behind the keyboard coding is not considered work by your standards.

I don't think this is being honest. This is choosing some arbitrary metric and sticking to it, and very much Goodhart's law in practice.

If your job takes you away from the thing you want to be doing, you should try to change your job, not work 6-day weeks or 12-hour days for your employer.

[miiiiiike]

Not honest? Employer? And, a very literal take on classification.

Coding doesn’t mean “typing”. I include anything related to coding that pushes the project forward.

Have you ever bootstrapped a company? I’ve done it twice successfully and once unsuccessfully. You have to figure out how to make sure you work enough without working too little. It’s not an easy balance.

This isn’t arbitrary, far from it, it’s what works naturally for me. Measured and adjusted over two decades.