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As if we needed any other clues that

2025-03-04 21:55:02.794637+01 by Dan Lyke 3 comments

As if we needed any other clues that the tech industry isn't evidence-based: How many years have we known that optimal work hours per week for knowledge workers is far less than 40, and even that is about structuring a few hours of flow time per day?

And yet Sergey Brin is calling for 60 hours? Against all evidence?

Proof that the office isn't about productivity.

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#Comment Re: As if we needed any other clues that made: 2025-03-05 01:10:30.653965+01 by: spc476

Most (if not all) large US companies are run as authoritarian communists states. Command economies, little autonomy for <del>citizens</del> workers, impossible quotas.

And I'm surprised Sergey Brin is even still involved with Google. Didn't he like leave a decade ago?

#Comment Re: As if we needed any other clues that made: 2025-03-07 17:58:16.643372+01 by: Dan Lyke

Yep. One of the things I've been struggling with for... well... I suppose the extent of my career now... is that we know, for instance, how to build higher quality software. And we keep not doing it.

There is, perhaps, an argument that the market doesn't need higher quality software, and so those processes are irrelevant, but it's always disappointing when we have solid evidence for how to do something right, and we don't, because the processes we have in place find it more important to focus on furthering intergenerational trauma than to accomplish the claimed goals.

#Comment Re: As if we needed any other clues that made: 2025-03-08 02:38:23.009038+01 by: spc476

The incentives aren't there. As Bill Gates once said, "No one pays for bug fixes."

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