Careers are long. Grinding 12 hour days at the edge of your ability can only go on for so long before you burn out and want to quit the industry all together.
3-6 hours of deep work per day sounds very healthy and sustainable. I imagine the rest of the time is filled with various administrative tasks.
You can also take the time to make sure quality is high and add in quality of life improvements, rather than just getting to the point of checking all the boxes, so you can move on to the next deadline. My favorite parts of any project were the little things I thought up and added above and beyond the base requirements. I also really liked creating internal tools to optimizing how my team and I work.
I have been trying new AI tools for the company and gotten the CTO to get Cursor for the company after a lot and back and forth.
I complete my tasks before time and take new tasks from others or from backlog.
I write documents to explain my projects/work so it can be easily picked up.
I try to automate my busy recurring tasks as well like starting the data pipeline every week to refresh company data or automating emails for another thing.
But I definitely agree with you that longevity is important but sometimes I just feel I would work at higher paced or more stressful place given I am still a few years (5) in my career.
Both GPT-4 and 4o have been completely useless for coding in the past couple of weeks for me - constant errors, and not just your typical LLM inaccuracies but incapable of producing a few lines of self-consistent code e.g. defines variables foo on one line and refers to it as bar on the next, or it misspells it as foox.
The level of misspelling is insane at the moment. It does it almost 50%+ of the times. I just started using claude 3.5 and the difference is night and day.
Its Flourish. I have both the domains for flourishatwork and florishatwork. For the dev site, I am using florishatwork. I haven't launched the main site because I want user feedback first. In hindsight, should have just used dev-flourishatwork lol to reduce the confusion.
3-6 hours of deep work per day sounds very healthy and sustainable. I imagine the rest of the time is filled with various administrative tasks.
You can also take the time to make sure quality is high and add in quality of life improvements, rather than just getting to the point of checking all the boxes, so you can move on to the next deadline. My favorite parts of any project were the little things I thought up and added above and beyond the base requirements. I also really liked creating internal tools to optimizing how my team and I work.
But I definitely agree with you that longevity is important but sometimes I just feel I would work at higher paced or more stressful place given I am still a few years (5) in my career.