The Dark Side of Tech Industry Culture: Working Hard vs. Living Well with Asana's CEO

Name: The Dark Side of Tech Industry Culture: Working Hard vs. Living Well with Asana's CEO
Uploaded: 2023-11-10T15:30:13+00:00
Duration: 50 s
Channel: Jason M. Lemkin
Description: Jason M. Lemkin argues that Silicon Valley's 24/7 grind culture actually hurts productivity and well-being. Research shows that relentless work hampers…

10 Nov 2023 · 1 min

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Jason M. Lemkin argues that Silicon Valley's 24/7 grind culture actually hurts productivity and well-being. Research shows that relentless work hampers performance, yet early-career pressure pushes engineers and founders to burn out. He shifted his own approach after realizing the cost, writing a Medium post called "Work Hard, Live Well" about treating a career like a marathon, not a sprint.

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that happens, but you said that it didn't make you a more productive person to be kind of grinding that hard or stressing that much. A lot of it, I think, was just how I was kind of pushing myself and, you know, some bad habits that I formed early on, but a lot of it also, I think, is just the culture of the tech industry and especially Silicon Valley where, you know, it's kind of romanticized to, like, just be working 24/7. You'll hear people say they We're up 2 nights in a row, you know, finishing this project, things like that. But when you talk to people that are further in their career, if you look at any of the research that's been done about this, you get the exact opposite conclusion where you really have to treat it much more like a marathon and really pace yourself and work in a sustainable way. And so a few years in, I was, I was sort of, you know, starting to feel that it was starting to cost me. So the blog post I wrote is Work Hard, Live Well. It's on Medium.