Weekend work

I just got my eyes dilated and I’m just starting to be able to see within a yard again. Not sure why I agreed to do this during the workday, but looks like I’m going to be doing a lot of weekend work to catch up for the time missed today.

I saw a tweet today where a founder was looking to recruit for his startup. One of the requirements was that his company works 6 days a week in office in San Francisco. It was a pretty interesting tweet thread as half the responses was basically telling him he’s a joke and the other half was applauding him for wanting to build something special.

My thoughts are that while this company isn’t for everyone, I think it’s pretty cool and can be a great company. He’s recruiting a specific type of person which most won’t qualify for and that’s okay. With that said, I do wonder how sustainable a model like this is. You can only work so much in life and burnout is a real possibility.

Regardless, anyone that’s worked in a high growth startup will eventually have to work weekends at least sometimes. It sucks but it’s part of the gig. You can’t really just shut it off for an entire 2 days and sometimes you just have to get caught up.