Asana's CEO discusses how Silicon Valley's 24/7 work culture and early bad habits created unsustainable practices. Research now shows pacing work like a marathon, not a sprint, leads to better outcomes. A blog post titled "Work Hard, Live well" explores this shift in thinking.
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. Some bad habits that I formed early on. But a lot of it also, I think is. Is just the. 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 two 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 sort of, you know, starting to feel that, and it was starting to cost me. So the blog post I wrote is work Hard, Live well. It's on medium.
