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1001 points genericlemon24 | 1 comments | 06 Sep 25 13:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.28s | source
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binsquare ◴[06 Sep 25 14:38 UTC] No.45149657[source]▶
I've been part of startups, big corps and have recently started my own startup.

I've also heard from executives and management discuss how they work longer hours (from 1:1s as a dev myself). Now as a founder, many of my peers discuss working 24/7 or close to it. Most don't - but there's a hustle culture that glamorized lack of sleep as a badge of honor.

The reality is that the "work" is very different for these different groups of people. Executives and management work by delegating and chatting people up. Founders can vary between executive duties or building or many various other founder duties. But (L3-5) engineering at corp is basically expected to code nonstop or to work oncall.

Working 996 as an executive is not comparable to 996 as an engineer.

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1. macNchz ◴[06 Sep 25 15:14 UTC] No.45150010[source]▶
> there's a hustle culture that glamorized lack of sleep as a badge of honor

For all of the pop science/bro science/measured self/life optimization stuff that percolates in this world, it’s funny to me that glorifying a lack of sleep persists, when sleep is effectively a performance enhancing drug, and a lack of it effectively makes you dumber.

I recall an anecdote from a sports medicine doctor interviewed somewhere, about how his patients with overtraining syndrome-type issues were overwhelmingly high-powered professionals who were accommodating their Ironman training schedule by sleeping less, as opposed to Olympic athletes who often sleep a lot to properly recover from their training.