[atspcohn]

I never pass on my thoughts as fact. The title of that section is "What I believe." Not "This is a fact." All of the other statements you make are false choices. You can have a hard working team that also produces simple, clean, intuitive UX. Great companies do this all of the time.

[weavejester]

You do say "Here is what I believe" but before you get to that section you throw out statements like "Giving up an extra 13 sprints/year to a competitor is simply unsustainable."

If you meant your whole article to be taken as mere opinion, then it wasn't clear at all. It looked like you were making a series of statements that were supposed to be taken as fact, and that only the last section was your opinion on these facts.

As for my statements being false choice, I did not claim that it is impossible to have talented people working long hours, just that people are generally inclined to go for the better offer, and a 4-day week is a very good offer for someone who's pulling in six figures. If you subscribe to the theory that getting talented people is several orders of magnitude more effective than making them work long hours, then a 4-day week makes serious economic sense.

[atspcohn]

I think the recruiting benefit that Ryan states is a very, very strong point in his approach.