Sergey Brin says 60 hours a week is the 'sweet spot'
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#2I wish society frowned upon the stupid and degrading ideas of people like that ugly Bozo.
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#3The "follow this formula exactly or you're doing it wrong" guide to overworking. Funny stuff.
He also warned against working more than 60 hours a week, saying it could lead to burnout, while calling out those who work less.
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#4I'll not be taking advice on how many hours per week I should work from someone who doesn't work at all.
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#6Previous discussion:
Google's Sergey Brin Asks Workers to Spend More Time in the Office
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43201709
Sergey Brin says AGI is within reach if Googlers work 60-hour weeks
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43208890
Google's Sergey Brin: Engineers Should Work 60-Hour Weeks in Office to Build AI
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43211925
In memo to Google's AI team, Sergey Brin says 60 hours a week is 'sweet spot'
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43213982
Sergey Brin says RTO is key to Google winning the AGI race
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43221105
60 Hours a week is the sweet spot of productivity?
Re: Sergey Brin says 60 hours a week is the 'sweet spot'
#7I wish the Internet had actually turned out to be democratizing
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#8I don't believe him. I'm sure forcing people to work more hours would be even sweeter for him.
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#10Can I suggest an experiment?
Sergey could decide to be put in a shared cube farm for 6x 10s a week and see how long he lasts.
I think there's a large difference between the fatigue invoked in work that is some variant of managerial "in meetings where it's low information hot takes 80% of the time" work, and actual engineering work where drafting design documents, working on code, and context switching while waiting for CI or other compute intensive processes to complete, or for folks to do a code review.