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Forty hours a week is plenty if you do not piss it away in meetings; the eighty-hour week is fluff labelled work.

Drawn from what David Heinemeier Hansson said

ambition

ambition How much to take on and how hard to push: superlinear returns to effort, focus, slack time, and procrastination.

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  1. Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals

    40 hours a week is actually a ton if you don't piss it away. Most people do piss it away. They piss it away in meetings. They piss it away on just stuff that doesn't matter when even three hours, four hours of concentrated uninterrupted time every day would move to goals they truly care about way down the field.

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