Planito: A 9-day week for a balanced life
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#2I think the most telling aspect of this is the appeal breaks down if everyone does it.
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#4holy shit that sounds awful, i cannot imagine working for 6 straight days even with a 3 day weekend! I guess it's a marginal improvement in that there are only 2 work days per rest day but it's still wild to me that 6 back to back work days are being touted as "balanced", i think we can generally agree that 3 day weekends on a 7 day week are acceptable, and that's 1.333 (repeating of course) rest days per work day.
I've found 3 work days, and 4 weekend days to be a good balance myself, though the reality is it's actually just the one middle day in the three where all the work gets done. The first day you ramp up, the second day is a hackathon, the third day is cleanup, refactor and polish. I much prefer to compress all of my time sold to someone else into as dense a chunk as possible in order to focus on what's actually important.
Long uninterrupted stretches of life where you're unbound from external pressures and are free to self-determine and pursue happiness and growth.
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#5Hehe. This reminds me of XKCD's 28-hour day:
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#6I can't wait for one of the deranged billionaires on Xitter to try instituting this somewhere. Egon Musk, this would wonderful for Tesla's productivity! And people of color and women probably hate it!
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#7See also CGP Grey's Weekend Wednesday schedule: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALaTm6VzTBw
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#8Putting in 6 days to get 3 is a -50% ROI, not much better than -60% ROI of the five-day work week.
I propose Profito: A 3-day week for a profitable life. For every 3 days you work, you get 4 days free.
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#9holy shit that sounds awful, i cannot imagine working for 6 straight days even with a 3 day weekend! I guess it's a marginal improvement in that there are only 2 work days per rest day but it's still wild to me that 6 back to back work days are being touted as "balanced", i think we can generally agree that 3 day weekends on a 7 day week are acceptable, and that's 1.333 (repeating of course) rest days per work day. I…
Yeah the six straight days would be brutal, even if the days were shorter. Maybe a 3-1-3-2 would be alright (if we're cool with non-7 day weeks). But if we're getting wild, how about a 3-2-3-2 approach?
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#10Does this assume that you give up on everyone you normally get to see on normal weekends or that you are a loner and have no friends?