Re:Climbing the wrong hill (2009)
by dheera on Monday April 17, 2017 @12:23AM
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This is exactly why I disagree with the 24/7 work style that some startups have. I use a large fraction of my spare time (i.e. nights and weekends) to randomly drop myself on other hills.
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Totally this. I'm ready to work 24/7 when I feel I'm on the right hill :).
When you feel you're on the right hill, you might still be on the wrong hill. You can climb Mt. Fuji and feel like you're on top of the world. But you're really not.
Why not just live day-to-day on whether you are happy rather than critiquing whether you are on "the right hill".
And what do you do when you are not happy? Go uphill (and it may be the wrong hill) or drop yourself randomly on new hills every day? Both are suboptimal. You should do a bit of both. Like go uphill 80% of the time and test random points 20% of the time.
That's the "exploration vs. exploitation" problem.