He writes it from a position of a business owner. He would get like 1/6 (?) of what Doom made?
Meanwhile someone who is a salaried worker is often not rewarded at all for doing any additional work. Often not even with paid overtime. If you finish a task fast you will get another task, not a promotion. The cynical take is that the managers (or business owners) cannot promote their key employees, because who will then do all the work on time?
In fact if the managers have a "star" and two "potatoes" they will usually reward the star with more work. Often without any noticable change in pay. Maybe some small bonus. But that bonus is often nothing when compared to real contribution. If you did 200% more work than the 2 potatoes you will oftenbget a 15% higher bonus. What is simply not worth it.
Even if you are a builder who likes to build - you are screwed. Most orgs dont even try to recognize their key talent. They dont know who pushes the company forward (apart from sales teams where it is relatively easy to indentify who sells more, but it doesnt often work that way - best sales people are those who open blue oceans - and I only saw that working once).
I actually agree with him that people who spend less hours will probably be less productive.
But as someone who switched jobs and had so far 40 half-hour meet and greet calls and who now sits for 6 hours per day in "alignment calls" I wonder when I am supposed yo do any actual work.
Im a "builder" but the organization does not give me time to build - constant distractions, constant "update calls" - and when I finally have 2 free hours my energy levels are drained by the useless stuff.
So those books that say that those big managers, leaders, builders wake up at 4am to do undistracted work - I understand. Or that they sit until late hours to actually do something, or even write emails in the evenings. In the (very good) book "Master's of doom" we could read that Carmac slept at the office. But at the end of the day he got millions from that.
A typical salaried person might get maybe 50% better bonus for spending your life in the office. So why do that? You waste a lot of hours for your life (say 2 hours per day) to get a bonus worth 0,5 of your monhly salary? One could calculate earnings per hour and come to a conclusion it is not worth it.
You are already paid what you are paid, the cynical view is do just enough to keep your spot and then optimize for leaving work after 8 hours and doing home stuff at work (buying stuff, reading news..).
The whole corporate reaward structure does not reward you for work. It rewards you gor visibility.
On a side note: the japanese who stay at work for 12 hours per day seem to mostly sit there, do chores, online shopping, sleep. I actually believe that they make maybe 5 hours if work, but are available (what of course is useful) for 12. If they sat at work for 8 hours, would they have a productive 4 or 6 hours?
Most people arent savants like Carmac who are productive for 8 hours in an 8 hour job.
Carmac was in an undistracted "builder mode / rhytm" for months. In my corporate envitonments it is a good thing if I can get undistracted 2 hours.
Also most people arent rewarded adequatly for contributing more. If the company isnt yours or if you arent getting a % bonus, if you work long hours you will just have a shitty life. (Many poor people have a shitty life too obviously but with even less money)
Fuck at my new org I'm even double booked on 2 calls at the same time. Do you think I contributing much to any?
Why the whole org cant setup 2 hours with no distraction? Would everyone ignore it? Would many "people managers" who do nothing but distract have nothing to do? In addition reality is that lots of workers need someone standing behind them with a deadline / stick to do make them do work.
I maybe should start a blog, or read a book. But would everyone even want to read those thoughts and rants