On: 996

[manoDev]

> 996 for a business owner or top exec at a big company? It’s the norm. And the risk-reward makes sense to them.

It's bad anyway. These people burnout and start making dumb moves to bail out sooner.

[gyomu → manoDev]

Heh, at that level the job is just meetings and emails. You can do 996 of meetings and emails for a few millions a year without burning out.

Actual craft tasks like writing code tho? Definitely a recipe for burnout and shittier output, yep.

[herval → gyomu]

As someone who had to 996 as a coder and as a manager, I can guarantee you the burnout is MUCH faster on the latter. A 996 schedule of zoom calls is straight up torture. I could feel myself getting dumber after a few months.

As a coder, you can accommodate downtimes on that schedule. You also see the result of your work (even code compiling is a dopamine hit). None of that exists if you’re meeting customers and investors - you’re playing the odds all day long and have to be 100% on all the time.

[NaomiLehman → gyomu]

I burned out after a year and a half of doing that. Not worth it. And after a certain NW, what's the difference? How much money do you need?