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>I'd love to see some research on 20-hour weeks, incidentally. The productivity curve is definitely non-intuitive.

I think you'd find that you'd get useful ideas for work. I think most of the time spent in software is NOT the bashing the keys to make the code. It's spent thinking about what to write, and spending time going down the wrong path.

I at least have a certain clarity when I'm rested that gives me the solution to last night's problems.

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Very true.

Incidentally, that feeds into one thing that I found about 20-hour weeks when I tried them: in many ways they're harder than doing an 80-hour week, because you've got to be so disciplined about always doing the most effective thing in the most effective way.

Often that also means going "what's scaring the crap out of me? Right, let's do that", again and again.

> "What's scaring the crap out of me? Right, let's do that."

I love this. I think this is going to be my new motto.

I know more than a few people who could do with understanding what you just said.

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