Us too! [1] I know a lot of people (not so many of you all, I'm
guessing) think maniac weeks are deeply stupid and a recipe for
burnout. I think this article makes the case that it's the opposite:
http://kentnguyen.com/personal/getting-rid-burnouts/ Namely, burnout
is about running around like a chicken with your head cut off putting
out fires and whatnot and never having time to do the part of your
work you enjoy, which for many of us is getting absorbed in code. The
article prescribes scheduling time to code every other day.
So arguably maniac weeks are a burnout cure! :)
I normally don't feel like I work particularly hard (I average 42
hours/week on Beeminder) and don't feel too susceptible to burnout,
but lately I have felt like we've been working our butts off and I'm
really looking forward to going into a cave with Bethany and building
cool stuff together with no distractions.
[1] I put this in the comments of
blog.beeminder.com/maniac last night:
This is me and Bethany precommitting to a new maniac workweek! A
maniac workweek, as we're hereby defining it, is where you work like a
maniac for 104 contiguous hours -- such as 9am Monday to 5pm Friday.
(A traditional full maniac week is 24*7 = 168 contiguous hours.) Ours
will be shifted by 24 hours, so 9am Tuesday to 5pm Saturday.
Timelapses to come the following Monday (Aug 11)!
This is a joint/paired maniac workweek, which we think is going to be
super fun (we seem to never get sick of each other!). Or maybe only
one of us will emerge alive. We shall see!
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