I apologize for my flippant remark above. People aren't getting what I'm trying to say in this thread, and my remark reflected that.
The key part here is that it's not sustainable long term. It would be silly to optimize for long-term productivity with launch looming and features unimplemented.
According to the latest research I've seen, you start dropping productivity within a couple of weeks of over work. You were in this mode for months, no?
Personally yes, same for my co-founder. However, the employee under discussion had only just started.
(and a quick reminder here that we're not discussing the employee's passion for the startup--which everyone would agree was low--not his "goodness" as a human being or as a developer.)
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I apologize for my flippant remark above. People aren't getting what I'm trying to say in this thread, and my remark reflected that.
The key part here is that it's not sustainable long term. It would be silly to optimize for long-term productivity with launch looming and features unimplemented.
According to the latest research I've seen, you start dropping productivity within a couple of weeks of over work. You were in this mode for months, no?
Personally yes, same for my co-founder. However, the employee under discussion had only just started.
(and a quick reminder here that we're not discussing the employee's passion for the startup--which everyone would agree was low--not his "goodness" as a human being or as a developer.)