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Absolutely, indeed frak being productive. It's a Ponzi scheme, you have to keep grinding so you can land your next job that might be slightly better (and often is not). And we're talking in your free time, not even during the work hours.

How about some new propaganda?

"Work maximum 5h a day and the other 3h you will donate to your employer if they are kind and give you good atmosphere and money"?

How about that one, eh?

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I think 5h of work is a ton in SWE. IF you can focus, isolate important work and put hard 5 hours... kid you are going places. If not, you will not be going places while putting 10 hours, I think.

Yeah, exactly.

I've actually used counters -- privately, I'll never give anyone access to my machine or my activity times -- for a small period of time and I discovered that my true creative time was something in the order of 2.0 to 3.5 hours a day. And we're talking truly good work here, adding features, refactoring, adding and fixing tests, making automation scripts, you name it, it was all there.

5h doing everything right is enough to burn you out for the next 2-3 days.

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