Realizing that diligence was a middle class status signaling value that did not apply in capital class circles was an interesting lesson. Elon Musk constantly talks about how you have to work twice as much as other people, where as Jeff Bezos is pretty open about going in for about 6-7 hours a day. Who is right? The answer is either one, they have different values, that hard work is subjective, and that you should just do what you want and what works. Hard work is the original virtue signaling in a growth economy. It says, I'm important, I'm needed, etc. But in practice it often means diligence which is often not correlated to effectiveness in most (not all) fields of knowledge work.