Ask HN: How do you manage work/life balance?
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#28 to 2 life
2 to 9 sleep
Monday through Saturday, with Sundays off.
Sure if there is some emergency all bets are off, but I find that this gives me the most productivity, w/o really doing any damage to my personal life.
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#4Period.
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#5Full-time founder: 9:30 to 11 work/coffee/eat, 11:30 to 3 work, 3 to 4 gym, 5 to 8 work, 8-11 eat/life, 11-1 work. Mon-Sat with Sunday usually being the most life and most relaxed.
You read that right... technically, I work the same or slightly less hours than with a full-time job and part-time founder responsibilities. Either way, it's about 60-70 hours a week.
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#63pm to 12am, founder stuff.
12am panic about homework
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#7I would like to add another dimension to this question, how do you pre-founders manage work life balance? (Pre-founders being those who are still working their day jobs, hacking away at nights/weekends)
Efficiency: I keep my priority list in front of me so I'm always coding the most important things. I use a Lisp dialect so that I can make effective use of short coding sessions. A lot of my progress in the past few years has been during 35-minute train rides.
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#87am to 3pm, school. 3pm to 12am, founder stuff. 12am panic about homework
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#9I don't have a separate office and I haven't been able to stick to any schedule more concrete than that.
Its probably not an ideal situation, but it seems to be working out pretty well so far.
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#10I don't bring my work home with me. Under any circumstance. Period.
For example, I'm off liquor until the PhD's finished. Permanently: no delivered pizza, and nothing but regular coffee or espresso from coffee shops (specifically, no mochas, which I take like liquid crack).
I can ignore the rules for special occasions, which helps keep me in moderation even when I'm in these unusual circumstances.