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Being a founder isn’t about writing code all day - you don’t have to be operating at full mental capacity to be getting stuff done. You spend a ton of time talking to people, recruiting, writing emails, etc. IMO the notion that you can be more effective as a founder in < 8 hrs/day as if you work 8 hrs/day is a pleasant sounding falsehood.

I’m sure there are diminishing returns at some point, but I don’t think it’s before 8 hrs/day.



Being a founder is irrelevant, he's talking about pushing his workers to work those hours, not about his personal schedule.


Ok fair, but are you aware of any position that is devoid of administrative tasks or meetings?

The hardest part of being in a company is almost always coordination and communication.


That's exactly my point; he shouldn't expect 8-9h of productive time from his workers, because there are always administrative tasks and meetings (not to mention more lowly vital necessities), and so that implies they're basically living in the company.


The problem is that HN doesn’t consider “vital necessities” productive when the author does


Wasn't the author talking about all the people who work for him with "if people are working less than 8-10 productive hours per day"?

If so I think he was also pretending the whole dev team should have 10hours/day of real productivity




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