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Re:Stop Glorifying Hard Work and Long Hours by sbjustin on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @12:48PM (#6021005)
I agree. Perhaps a better clarification would be billable work vs work?
Re:Stop Glorifying Hard Work and Long Hours by RyanZAG on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @01:03PM (#6021126)
Nice one, but billable work is - by definition - whatever you can get someone to pay you for. If that's the case, I'm pretty sure there are a lot of people getting paid to be on HN, or sleep under a tree with their phone on and being on call. That would be billable work too, and very productive if you consider productive to be "how much money I made".

And no, there isn't someone in the sky recording how many minutes you looked away from coding and deciding if you're an acceptable person or not. ;) The "work" vs "not work" is all in your head.