What Nicole Forsgren thinks about ambition

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Researcher of software delivery performance, co-author of "Accelerate" and of the DORA, SPACE and DevEx frameworks, and author of "Frictionless".

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1. 22 Mar 2026

   Our readingHumans max out at three or four hours of really hard deep work a day, so the eight hours of intense work executives ask for is not available.

   Their wordsAnd humans max out at about like 3 to 4 hours a day. Like really really hard deep work, right? Um which always makes me laugh when executives are like, "We need 8 hours of intense work."

   ↗Nicole Forsgren: Leading high-performing engineering teams in the age of AI - The Pragmatic Summityoutube.com 7th of 18 in this recording