Silicon Valley is in the concept of AI panic. Companies are running quickly towards AI, boards are pressing for faster results, investors are “Where is AI?” He asks. If they didn’t jump to Bandwagon anyway.
As a result, the CEOs come to meetings with urgent realizations on staying behind, the founders are working excessive programs, and entrepreneurs are sacrificing travel, holidays and personal relationships for the case. Before a great launch, a All-Night was a basis of the technology industry, then created a good story to tell, but that’s something different. The density is obvious; The AI Revolution creates both Ecstasy and pain with both the 100 -hour working week of themselves or for the long -term 80 -hour program operation of employees.
However, I believe that by observing this intensity from the first hand, there is another perspective worth considering to build permanent businesses at the time of deduction.
After a company built and sold it for $ 2.25 billion, I learned that the entrepreneurs who create permanent value-and important outputs-did not burn themselves in a hundred-hour weeks. Those who understand that “the construction of success to the construction lasts seven years” and that a 100 -hour week of work is unsustainable for a long time.
It’s not a sprint to set up a business – it’s a sprint marathon. In many team sports, such as hockey, the “Sprints” metric is the foresight of a better performance than a flat line. In the same way – you should know when to force, but you should learn to recover quickly and most importantly how to continue again. The actual value does not come from working for a quarter of a quarter. Composition from the compound: Talent merger, merging expertise in your sector, brand recognition and combining customer trust and combining product skills.
This compound is just long enough to see it in the game. And in the game, you can only stay if you work at a sustainable speed.
What makes a mature entrepreneur or manager is to strategically confuse where your boundaries are-for long-term sustainability and for short-term explosions. Sprint and there are times to speed up yourself. It is to know which wisdom is.
When I started my first job at the age of 18, I was holding a full -time job at the same time and I was continuing my university degree. This speed would now be unsustainable for me, with the children in my 40s. But here is what the 100 -hour Evangelists missed: more than decades of practical experience, connections and mold recognition, more than compensating any minor differences in hours.
Let’s be honest: Many claims of 100 hours of working weeks are either exaggerated or unsustainable abnormalities. Although there are unique individuals who can really maintain this tempo, both personal experience and medical research show that people deprived of sleep are less productive.
More importantly, business and product development is a high -betting game. Under uncertainty, usually pays important decisions without full information and then pay to live with results. The quality of these decisions is rapidly worsening with exhaustion. Would you like your surgeon to work at 95 hours of working weeks?
Here is a say: When the founders claim to be tired of working too much, something is basically wrong. When the founders really work in a really long hours, this is usually a love of love – they are energized, they are inexhaustible.
The current AI panic produces a different dynamic. The founders feel that everything is urgent and critical, operating from deep paranoia, having a price tag every fifteen minutes. This is not passion; Panic. And panic rarely produces good long -term decisions.
This is a mental game and if you are in the wrong mental mode, you will not take long enough to see the benefits of compounds. Before your business model proves itself, you will burn before your team finds your product suitable for the market.
I wish that the policies of HR policies both in Europe and the United States to allow companies and individuals to be more transparent in their expectations. The hard pushing of some founders and companies is perfectly good – innovation usually requires intensity. The problem occurs when there is a disconnection in expectations.
Some initiatives need people who are willing to work with starting hours. Some people develop in this environment. The problem is the time when companies secretly wait for 80 hours of weeks or when candidates estimate their morality during interviews. This disconnection hurts everyone.
Yes, AI represents an important technological change. Yes, companies need to adapt. Urgency is real and well documented. However, the laws of human physiology and psychology remain unchanged. Sustainable success is still due to long enough to build strong teams, to make good decisions and to stay for your compound advantages in the game.
My own experience confirms this: the company, where I built an output of $ 2.25 billion, was not the result of grinding the 100 -hour week. There was plenty of grinding to walk around. Nevertheless, it was the result of good teamwork and consistently consistent, strategic decision -making systems for years, creating systems that could scaling and maintaining mental clarity to navigate in complex market dynamics. Early burning founders have never seen the compound effects.
The ironic is in a hurry not to be left behind by AI, and it adopts the business models that almost guarantee their jobs, and guarantees that it will not be long enough to benefit from everything that the AI revolution has emerged.
Build in the long run. Know your limits and prepare for the fact that there are people who cannot match them. Create sustainable excellence throughout the team. The compound will be interested in the rest.
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