I’ve been strict about being a 1x dev for a few years. On a Very Big Project a few years ago, I was proud some other team members followed suit. I did some long days to increase US cross-over but buggered off early on Fridays to make it up.
one 1.00000001× day is more productive than a 10× day followed by a burnout 0.1× day
the math don’t lie
— Zach Leatherman (@zachleat) August 27, 2021
I don’t think I ever told the client about the shorter Fridays, but I also reckon they were smart enough to pick up that the guy doing 40/hrs of code review each week never sent anything late Fridays.
Fun fact: I started being strict about it after a leaving a job in which the boss would schedule projects so I had to work seven days a week.
He got shitty when it made me sick and I became a .1 dev for a while as a result. I left shortly after that, go figure…
