Mason McLead

Yeah, or you're Hugh Jackman and you're guzzling wine while creating the world's best worm or whatever it is that he was doing in a 3D model on 12 screens. That's the image that people have, whether it's the crazy graphics or not, that we're there all the time.

Yeah, or you're Hugh Jackman and you're guzzling wine while creating the world's best worm or whatever it is that he was doing in a 3D model on 12 screens. That's the image that people have, whether it's the crazy graphics or not, that we're there all the time.

And we do work long hours, which you can see the code day lengths, especially as releases come up, it stretches to like 12, 13 hours, meaning like from the first keystroke to the last keystroke of the day, it's that long. But the amount of active code time cumulative through the day on average is under two hours.

And we do work long hours, which you can see the code day lengths, especially as releases come up, it stretches to like 12, 13 hours, meaning like from the first keystroke to the last keystroke of the day, it's that long. But the amount of active code time cumulative through the day on average is under two hours.

So the amount of focused editing time that people have on average is less than two hours a day, and a lot of times a lot less than two hours a day. And if you break it down into whether that's at work or at home, more than half of it is outside of normal working hours.

So the amount of focused editing time that people have on average is less than two hours a day, and a lot of times a lot less than two hours a day. And if you break it down into whether that's at work or at home, more than half of it is outside of normal working hours.

So the amount of distractions and other stuff that we do, but instead of coding is pretty big that we push into the nights and weekends to get a lot of our work done. Because that's when we can have time to focus, which is why Saturday is the biggest focus day that we see. And I think that's a travesty unless your normal working day is Saturday.

So the amount of distractions and other stuff that we do, but instead of coding is pretty big that we push into the nights and weekends to get a lot of our work done. Because that's when we can have time to focus, which is why Saturday is the biggest focus day that we see. And I think that's a travesty unless your normal working day is Saturday.

Yeah, I agree. I think that's huge. And one of the things that we see is we've looked at different cohorts, different kind of behavior patterns that we see. And one of the best performing cohorts in terms of overall output, which is kind of a crude measurement, but that's the measurement we were going with, is those that...

Yeah, I agree. I think that's huge. And one of the things that we see is we've looked at different cohorts, different kind of behavior patterns that we see. And one of the best performing cohorts in terms of overall output, which is kind of a crude measurement, but that's the measurement we were going with, is those that...

perform typically within working hours consistently throughout the week and are less sort of spiky in their activity, like pulling an all-nighter and those sorts of things. The people that work consistently five days during normal working hours and hardly ever miss a day, those are the ones that have the highest, what we call velocity scores, which is like a, oh man, I'm going to forget the name.

perform typically within working hours consistently throughout the week and are less sort of spiky in their activity, like pulling an all-nighter and those sorts of things. The people that work consistently five days during normal working hours and hardly ever miss a day, those are the ones that have the highest, what we call velocity scores, which is like a, oh man, I'm going to forget the name.

It's principal component analysis doing a vector projection thing. It's a machine learning thing that my data scientist has told me several times. what it is. And that's, that's all the best I've got right now. But basically it's a, it's a combination of a bunch of inputs into a score.

It's principal component analysis doing a vector projection thing. It's a machine learning thing that my data scientist has told me several times. what it is. And that's, that's all the best I've got right now. But basically it's a, it's a combination of a bunch of inputs into a score.

And that, but anyway, that cohort of users has generally the highest average score on that set of inputs because they're consistent. They don't go over a bunch and work crazy, crazy hours. Cause then you get too tired and you can't like your next day suffers a lot, which we see in the data as well. I can see that in my own data. Cause I still do that sometimes where I'll, go to like 2 a.m.

And that, but anyway, that cohort of users has generally the highest average score on that set of inputs because they're consistent. They don't go over a bunch and work crazy, crazy hours. Cause then you get too tired and you can't like your next day suffers a lot, which we see in the data as well. I can see that in my own data. Cause I still do that sometimes where I'll, go to like 2 a.m.

or something like that and then the next day is just awful and the second day after that kind of recovers and then I'm back to my normal so I'm like missing out on two days in exchange for a few extra hours at night not the best exchange but

or something like that and then the next day is just awful and the second day after that kind of recovers and then I'm back to my normal so I'm like missing out on two days in exchange for a few extra hours at night not the best exchange but

So, you know, there is that separation of, okay, work time needs to happen in a set of time, and if you can, in a place, and then separate that from everything else. I actually just switched out my laptop for a Mac mini desktop. Because I don't ever work anywhere else except for in my office. So it's non-mobile now. And I guess I have my phone.

So, you know, there is that separation of, okay, work time needs to happen in a set of time, and if you can, in a place, and then separate that from everything else. I actually just switched out my laptop for a Mac mini desktop. Because I don't ever work anywhere else except for in my office. So it's non-mobile now. And I guess I have my phone.