One extremely under-rated impact of working harder is that you learn more. You have sub-linear short-term impact with increasing work hours because of things like burnout, or even just using up the best opportunities, but long-term you have super-linear impact (as long as you apply good epistemics) because you just complete more operational cycles and try more ideas about how to do the work.
Working more hours could help learning in the sense of helping you collect data faster. But if you want to learn from the data you already have, I’d suggest working fewer hours (or taking a vacation) to facilitate a reflective mindset.
I had a friend who took a stimulant every day, working at a startup, only to wake up many months later and realize the startup wasn’t going anywhere & he’d wasted a lot of time. Beware tunnel vision. Once you’re at 40 hours a week, it’s generally more valuable to work smarter than work harder IMO.
Working more hours could help learning in the sense of helping you collect data faster. But if you want to learn from the data you already have, I’d suggest working fewer hours (or taking a vacation) to facilitate a reflective mindset.
I had a friend who took a stimulant every day, working at a startup, only to wake up many months later and realize the startup wasn’t going anywhere & he’d wasted a lot of time. Beware tunnel vision. Once you’re at 40 hours a week, it’s generally more valuable to work smarter than work harder IMO.