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Ask HN: What % pay cut would you be willing to take for a 4-day work week?

7 pointsby psmithsfhn5 ปีที่แล้ว14 comments

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i haven't lived the zoom lifestyle yet, as my only pandemic gig was phone-only.

but i def feel like zoom is over-relied-upon. why else would _so_ many people have zoom fatigue?

then again, this is prob more about team-building exercises than zoom.

i do wonder about the actual effectiveness of said exercises.

i know, 'studies say' -- but....i'm skeptical. i guess i have to read some of those studies.

i wonder if, for the time/effort/money put into teambuilding exercises, could we not just give everyone a 4-day work week?

5 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

a part of me is thinking

"ugh, why couldn't we get a tax credit for, you know, bike bikes? non-electric bikes?" :-D

but i'm not hating much -- a small step in the right direction -- i'll take it!

and i was skeptical e-bikes improve health much, but again - baby steps - i'll take it -- it does appear that they do something, and getting more support for allowing people to bike (i.e. bike tracks) is a big deal.

5 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

I suspect the answer is, like most things, 'politics'.

So, to me, for instance, take the biggest problem the world currently faces - global heating.

I think everyone knows the two or three things we would need to do to 'solve it': - carbon tax - carbon capture - energy reset/clean/green/conservation/etc.

But it's only partially 'solved', same as robocalls.

There are just too many people making too much money, having too much success, with robocalling to stop it.

5 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

i think this sounds very reasonable.

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for yourself or others, do you think your workload would be reduced?

or, would you be able to get the same or more done in 20% less time?

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sounds like a good idea to me.

i wonder if a 4-day work week would actually be attractive to employers, especially if they could take a cut (back) of salary.

maybe even something like....it's a 20% work time cut, so maybe for that, i'll need to give you %30 of my salary, which is a lot.

but if some of the studies are to be believed, then productivity can go up with a shorter work week, so salary should actually be _increasing_.

but...you got to get the deal done. so...

5 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen

it's great. seems to be something there for everyone.

fans. musicians. political people. artists. lovers. writers. poets. workers. NJ enthusiasts.

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i suspect not.

they seem to show up a lot for me, still, for....almost any search i do.

and looking thru a lot of posts on idiehackers and related, it seems to be the number one place that small companies go to to get attention.

so, the quality may be 'finished', but...they're still highly relevant for most of the web.

5 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

i use a super-simple 'email myself' app to type up a quick message so that it hits my gmail and i process it later.

usually that means looking at it, looking it up, figure out what, if anything i want to do with it.

i might delete it. i might archive it. i might bookmark it.

i might put it in my 8-mile-long notepad as 'idea: do this cool thing' so that i can find it later and see how bad of an idea it was, or on the very rare occasion, rethink thru it again, and/or even try to do something with it, bounce it off a friend, etc.

in the end, my two repositories are: notepad (which right now is 'Text' program on my Chromebook, backed by a google doc -- i.e. where the content/file actually lives) * gmail, just in my Archived email

i've never actually known the value of 'innovation management'.

always assumed it had more to do with PR -- "hey big company x, capture the _brilliant_ idea of your _brilliant_ people and make enough money next quarter that you won't get fired, or at a minimum you'll contribute to this idea of the company as being an egalitarian place, democracy, etc."

not hating, that's just my general impression.

5 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

Been working on a service to let you listen to the web -- similar in function to the audio part of the Pocket app.

Mostly using AWS Lambda and SNS.

Some occasional weirdness in stringing functions together -- might do more with Step Functions.

But weird part is some calls just seem to hang and never return -- unless they get a clean/new function of their own.

Using Pythom 3.8 with Boto3 library.

But generally amazed with what Lambda seems like it might be able to do if I can get it humming.

http://readonthegoapp.com/

5 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

No.

That's what I want to believe anyways.

It would be interesting to see an actual study, though.

Team A does project 1 with Scrum.

Team B does project 1 without Scrum.

Let's say over 3 months.

Who wins?

We could look at time to finish, bugs, code quality/resilience, etc.

I know there is a 'study' out every other day from some Project Mgmt org saying, "500% of IT Projects are fail!", but obviously we need real studies.

5 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

I plan on launching a B2B and B2C solution soon.

My strategy in a general sense will be to:

    * re-listen to all the Indie Hackers podcasts and take notes

    * stay patient

I heard one guy say it may take months or years, but as a B2B, you will absolutely win, eventually, you just have to keep at it, keep iterating, etc.

And, in the beginning, anything more than a 0% interest in your product is great.

In short, a lot of the advice is....plan to keep working at it for a long time. If you can achieve that, there is a good change that you will be successful. Most people give up way too soon.

Mark Cuban says this a lot, too.

5 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

whenever someone makes blanket technical statements in this crazy boasting fashion, i think of Yeats:

> ...the worst are full of passionate intensity.

that said, it's difficult to feel sympathy for people supporting a platform that encourages terrorism, murder, etc.

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laravel spark

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better, why do they still make car horns?

6 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

i've been in this position, and on the other side - where i wanted to pick up someone else's idea/tech and run with it.

in theory, we'd figure out a way to split equity/etc.

now there are sites that let you sell project sites, etc., so that's prob a positive.

6 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

Dropbox locked me out of my account years ago and I'm sure they have locked out thousands of other people too.

I suspect loss of trust helps a company go into decline, especially when the company holds a vital assets.

6 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

A job market with a lot of interesting opportunities, but 1 hour outside of a major city, and your career will be secondary to...a job market with lots of interesting opportunities?

These all seem weirdly incongruent/confusing/confused. And probably impossible.

But happy to be wrong.

Maybe i'm just triggered because I love LA and hate it less than most other cities.

And the sunk cost fallacy is mostly false -- i've never actually seen a useful example of it that is academically rigorous -- even after looking at Dan Ariely's examples.

6 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

tony hsieh tried to retire early. didn't work out so well.

one strategy for how to deal with problems is to try to fix them.

another strategy is to run away from them.

6 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

sounds like The Second Coming poem ("the centre cannot hold") by WB Yeats, 1919:

https://poets.org/poem/second-coming

  The best lack all coviction, while the worst
  Are full of passionate intensity