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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 31 points 10 months ago (2 children)

4 to 5 hours of work, ladys and gentlemen.

[–] scrion@lemmy.world 54 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

That's actually close to a regular working day. 4-5h of core work, 2h of correspondence (e. g. Zoom meetings, bullshit emails), 1h of various breaks, e. g. lunch. Sounds perfectly reasonable to me.

[–] OwlPaste@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The difference is that she is doing something she most likely enjoys and most of the rest of us chums are prostituting our time for money 💰💰💰

[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So is she. She's just got a better pimp.

[–] daddy32@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

But the important difference is that she did the work uninterrupted by the bullshit...

[–] sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If one of the best speculative fiction authors to live only needs 5 hours of work a day to create The Left Hand of Darkness and the Earthsea series, then maybe it's something worth exploring.

Most of us work 8 hours a day and probably produce nothing "valuable" except shareholder profits so...

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 3 points 10 months ago

For most of those 8 hours, we are not productive to begin with and just procrastinate over small tasks, because it's not humanly possible to be hyperfocused for 8 hours straight.