Report suggests 21 hours is the ideal work week • Hacker News Board

Re: Report suggests 21 hours is the ideal work week

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Post by maneesh » Sun, Feb 14, 2010, 7:24 PM UTC

andrew1 wrote: post #21

maneesh wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I designed my life to work 3hrs59m / week, and spend the remaining 6 days starting an NGO that teaches Indian village children how to use the computer....if you live your life non-traditionally, you can live on a lot less work than 21 hours...

That's very interesting, although without a little context, it's hard to know what to make of it. What do you do during the 3h59ms that you work? Where do you live? What do you do with the other 20h1m on the day when you work?

hey, i filmed a video about it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1merER1zVFg

I work SEO for 3h59, and then I started a school in India teaching children how to use the computer....and I also have been traveling to a new country every 4 month2 for 2 years to study the language (i speak spanish italian and portuguese, lived in italy spain argentina brazil and India)

Re: Report suggests 21 hours is the ideal work week

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Post by DaniFong » Sun, Feb 14, 2010, 11:25 PM UTC

realitygrill wrote: post #51

DaniFong wrote: post #43

This reminds me of a conversation I recently had with some Berkeley graduates, who were mystified at how much I had accomplished, and how quickly, and by the fact that I might stay up into the wee hours of the morning working or blasting out an essay or coding or designing. These same people put in 50 hour sessions in Final Fantasy. People want to work. Some people want to work hard. Most especially, people want to a…

This is exactly why I quit playing video games. However I haven't been able to shunt that effort into something productive so easily..

It takes time, effort, practice, and purpose. Figure out what you really want to do. That's your first challenge.

Re: Report suggests 21 hours is the ideal work week

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Post by rjurney » Tue, Feb 16, 2010, 8:51 PM UTC

gaius wrote: post #59

rjurney wrote: post #54

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Airbus had massive state support - hardly an even playing field. They're an example of what a good state-private collaboration can do, not of productivity of the private sector in general.

As does Boeing, except it's funneled via the DoD. Anyway, that's not the point. Can European engineers bring equivalent products to market as quickly as American engineers, despite taking vacations and being in the office fewer hours? Absolutely yes, it happens all the time.

Yeah, don't buy it. Not at startups.