Ask HN: How do you manage long hours vs. spending time with loved ones?

Re:Ask HN: How do you manage long hours vs. spending time wi... by honkycat on Thursday January 03, 2019 @03:36PM (#18819043)

Work less hours. You are probably wasting them at work anyway. Most research points to about 3-4 hours of good "deep work" a day.

If you need to work more hours because your start-up is lazy about tracking productivity and "time in seat" == "more productivity" then try and build and document an empirical way to measure your productivity. There are a ton of good books out there on this subject. I recommend "Accelerate."

Go ask your grandfather if he wishes he had worked more or spent more time with family. Relationships NEED nurturing. Not making time to be together can and will kill your relationship.

Check out "Deep Work - Cal Newport" and "It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work - by Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson". You do read and do research on how to run your company and track your productivity, don't you? Or do you just fart your way through life and are consistently amazed at how the harder you work the further away the goal-post is?

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Re:Ask HN: How do you manage long hours vs. spending time wi... by raleigh_user on Thursday January 03, 2019 @05:15PM (#18819881)

Consistently farting 24/7. Its actually a problem

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Re:Ask HN: How do you manage long hours vs. spending time wi... by xfitm3 on Thursday January 03, 2019 @06:19PM (#18820345)

I’m not sure if you are receptive to advice that isn’t aligned with your questions narrative - but I’ll give it a shot.

Can you delegate, hire, etc to reduce your workload?

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Re:Ask HN: How do you manage long hours vs. spending time wi... by raleigh_user on Thursday January 03, 2019 @07:55PM (#18821035)

Goal is to get there in next few months. Laying groundwork to do so now. Definitely receptive

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