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PoindexterOglethorpe

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1. Several decades ago I realized

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Mon Oct 6, 2025, 04:36 PM

8 hrs ago

that the work ethic of Silicon Valley (100 hour weeks? Really?) was actually worse than counter-productive. People need time off. I read an article a while back which claimed the iPhone probably would have come to market about two years earlier had the people working on it spent 40 hours a week at work, not double or triple that.

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Several decades ago I realized PoindexterOglethorpe 8 hrs ago #1

Musk works as much as he does because he has no life. No true friends. No interests. AStern 8 hrs ago #2

Except for the times he attempts to reproduce. Though that only takes a couple of minutes. madinmaryland 8 hrs ago #3