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I‘m a big fan of the four day workweek idea, but let’s not kid ourselves. 5 days are 5 days. I work 10h days usually and I just wouldn’t be able to fit all that work into 4 days.


I don't think human production is linear. There's definitely an optimal point, and it probably varies from person to person. I think, actually, past that point your productivity declines rapidly.

I would not be surprised at all if working 70 hours a week yields more productivity than 80, which yields more than 100.


And productivity can even become negative, i.e. if you're overworked/tired you might end up creating more work to fix the mess you made later.


That’s because you actually work 6 days a week.


Yeah but what's the argument?


Perhaps you should split the load with another human?


That's out of my control.




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