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Ask HN: How do you manage work/life balance?
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Re: Ask HN: How do you manage work/life balance?
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's so wrong in every way. A proper work-life balance makes you more effective at both. Hours worked is shown very strongly in studies to follow the law of diminishing returns, to the point of even turning negative. If you're sacrificing friendships and family, you're not doing it right. And not only that, even if you succeed you'll end up wishing you didn't. I've seen this happen. For every Mark Cuban there are 1…
I found it wasn't really the time that was a problem, it was attention. Even when I was at parties or with my families, I wasn't really mentally there, since there was always this cool algorithm or new approach that I was turning over in my head and wanted to try out. That tended to make parties not all that much fun for me, and me not all that much fun for the party. So even though I was only working 5-6 hours/day o…
I know a lot of startup founders. Most of them work hard, for sure, but also have some balance. Some more than others. The two aren't incompatible, but it takes some work to make them otherwise.
Re: Ask HN: How do you manage work/life balance?
#33"If you're going to half-ass your startup because of some 'work-life balance,' you're going to lose." - Michael Arrington Mark Cuban was known for working 7 years straight on Broadcast.com (originally known as AudioNet) and that was at the time the largest IPO in history, sold to Yahoo for $6 billion in stock. He didn't take vacations, holidays, or leave work during these 7 years. It depends on what you want out of l…
I'd class myself as a early adopter and I've been using the internet for a really long time.
I've never heard of broadcast.com.
Mark Cuban might have made a lot of money, but did he create something good that people know, love, and use?
Because I want to do the latter.
Re: Ask HN: How do you manage work/life balance?
#34"If you're going to half-ass your startup because of some 'work-life balance,' you're going to lose." - Michael Arrington Mark Cuban was known for working 7 years straight on Broadcast.com (originally known as AudioNet) and that was at the time the largest IPO in history, sold to Yahoo for $6 billion in stock. He didn't take vacations, holidays, or leave work during these 7 years. It depends on what you want out of l…
sounds like Sparta to me
Re: Ask HN: How do you manage work/life balance?
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's so wrong in every way. A proper work-life balance makes you more effective at both. Hours worked is shown very strongly in studies to follow the law of diminishing returns, to the point of even turning negative. If you're sacrificing friendships and family, you're not doing it right. And not only that, even if you succeed you'll end up wishing you didn't. I've seen this happen. For every Mark Cuban there are 1…
"For every Mark Cuban there are 1,000 entrepreneurs who succeed without working 90 hours a week." Is there are tangible evidence for this? I agree with the idea of diminishing returns, but also think that one needs to put in more than 40 hours a week. But so far, the arguments are anecdotal.
I certainly haven't done a study, no. I'd love to see one too.
I believe there has been some evidence that supports the ~40 hour work week. I suppose 40 exactly is a tad arbitrary, optimal number is probably some strange decimal, but I'd be surprised if it wasn't really close to 40 for the average person.
Perhaps it depends on the individual, perhaps for some its 40 and for some its 50, etc. Maybe the latter group succeeds more. I feel like this is untrue, but certainly can't prove it.
Re: Ask HN: How do you manage work/life balance?
#367am to 3pm, school. 3pm to 12am, founder stuff. 12am panic about homework
I very rarely did homework at home during high school... therefore my panic time was reduced to schooltime as I frantically tried to do the homework during other classes.
Did other people do this? Or was the upmodding to say "I should have done this"?
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#37"If you're going to half-ass your startup because of some 'work-life balance,' you're going to lose." - Michael Arrington Mark Cuban was known for working 7 years straight on Broadcast.com (originally known as AudioNet) and that was at the time the largest IPO in history, sold to Yahoo for $6 billion in stock. He didn't take vacations, holidays, or leave work during these 7 years. It depends on what you want out of l…
I'd class myself as a early adopter and I've been using the internet for a really long time. I've never heard of broadcast.com. Mark Cuban might have made a lot of money, but did he create something good that people know, love, and use? Because I want to do the latter.
Broadcast.com, Dallas Mavericks, HD Net, MicroSolutions, a hedge fund, a movie distributor, a movie production business, angel investments...and they all weren't done after Broadcast.com either.
Re: Ask HN: How do you manage work/life balance?
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd class myself as a early adopter and I've been using the internet for a really long time. I've never heard of broadcast.com. Mark Cuban might have made a lot of money, but did he create something good that people know, love, and use? Because I want to do the latter.
Broadcast.com, Dallas Mavericks, HD Net, MicroSolutions, a hedge fund, a movie distributor, a movie production business, angel investments...and they all weren't done after Broadcast.com either.
Never heard of HD Net or Microsolutions either (and I'm fairly sure Cuban didn't create the Dallas Mavericks). I'd rather be the guy/gal who created one well loved household name - say lastminute.com - than who made a mint on a lot of not well known known companies.
Re: Ask HN: How do you manage work/life balance?
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Broadcast.com, Dallas Mavericks, HD Net, MicroSolutions, a hedge fund, a movie distributor, a movie production business, angel investments...and they all weren't done after Broadcast.com either.
Never heard of HD Net or Microsolutions either (and I'm fairly sure Cuban didn't create the Dallas Mavericks). I'd rather be the guy/gal who created one well loved household name - say lastminute.com - than who made a mint on a lot of not well known known companies.
HD Net was the first all high definition television network, and is what helped spur all the mainstream networks (due to competition and audience response) to go HD. Cuban was on the HD bandwagon when it was empty. Haha he certainly didn't invent the Mavericks, but he completely transformed them & more importantly, made them a contender - much to the admiration of hundreds of thousands of Dallas Mavericks fans.
MicroSolutions was bought by CompuServe who you may or may not be familiar with. Have you heard the movies titled: The Smartest Guys in The Room or Good Night, and Good Luck? He was behind them.
I certainly get what you're saying, it's just that sometimes Cuban is wrongly portrayed as a one-trick pony. Also of note, I had never heard of lastminute.com until today. And even if i had, I doubt I'd know the person behind it.
Re: Ask HN: How do you manage work/life balance?
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Never heard of HD Net or Microsolutions either (and I'm fairly sure Cuban didn't create the Dallas Mavericks). I'd rather be the guy/gal who created one well loved household name - say lastminute.com - than who made a mint on a lot of not well known known companies.
HD Net was the first all high definition television network, and is what helped spur all the mainstream networks (due to competition and audience response) to go HD. Cuban was on the HD bandwagon when it was empty. Haha he certainly didn't invent the Mavericks, but he completely transformed them & more importantly, made them a contender - much to the admiration of hundreds of thousands of Dallas Mavericks fans. Micro…
Aren't they shutting down the analog TV network in the US and re-using the spectrum elsewhere, per the rest of the world? And aren't most networks happy with more channels and more chances to grab ad-revenue? Surely that would spurn the adoption of HD more than a particular competitor being first of the boat.
But I have heard of Good Night, and Good Luck, and perhaps the other film, if you mean the Enron documentary (The Smartest Guys in the Room). Those, and reinventing a sports team would be achievements of which I would be very proud.