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Plus, sitting at a desk typing away for extended periods of time is actually pretty easy -- what's harder is making sure quality stuff is being generated for that entire time.
"I’m your typical “balls to the wall” founder that will sacrifice all for the sake of the startup" ... "I founded and ran GooseChase, which makes running scavenger hunts incredibly easy via iPhone & Android apps". Some of this stuff is beyond parody...
Trivializing the amount of effort and energy this fellow put in to producing/developing this cross-platform mobile app because you disagree with...well, I still don't know what your issue is with the quotes you pulled, care to share?
Read the last line of pg's comment from the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5521286
You might have felt better after posting your comment but you also gave up your chance to add something constructive to the discussion. To paraphrase pg's reaction, it makes me embarrassed for HN when people include projects in their blog profile and this is the sort of response they get.
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There's a political element to this to though. Remember, human beings, including your boss and coworkers, are social creatures. What you consider time spent "bullshitting with coworkers" might actually be an investment into office culture and politics.
Nobody is saying that you have to lock your self in a box and do your work. If you need 10 hours to do something that somebody does in 6. Maybe, just maybe you should focus on your work instead of 'culture' especially if the goal of a start up to succeed. I have never heard of a single case where something got acquired for it's culture. Have you? But let me be clear. My point is that measuring somebody by the time th…
Me spending more time on office politics would unload some of the office politics from your shoulders and let you focus more on software development which you do the best.
That way it would be a win-win.
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So a glorified (and quite expensive) CouchSurfing?
Couchsurfing is fantastic. It's also very variable. Many people are willing to pay for a consistent, high-quality experience.