On: The Thirty-Hour Week (1936)

[MaxBarraclough]

Sounds like just the sort of thing that 'lean startups' push back against.

[jswizzy → MaxBarraclough]

I though Startups where all about working people to death

[strken → jswizzy]

I always assumed startups were about sticking

    CREATE TABLE widgets (
      id SERIAL,
      name VARCHAR NOT NULL
    );
    CREATE INDEX widgets_idx_id ON widgets (id);

into migrations/42-add_widgets.sql, tapping Melissa[0] on the shoulder and asking her to review it, then SSHing into staging and executing it, all in the space of about twenty minutes with zero paperwork other than a PR.

[0] Melissa is not real

[smudgymcscmudge → strken]

Melissa is real to me dammit

[mises → jswizzy]

I think they demand the focused work at similar hours, which is very mentally drowning for very many people.

[jacobush → MaxBarraclough]

How?

[MaxBarraclough → jacobush]

I'm afraid I don't know specifics, but the lean startups 'movement' emphasises efficiency.