I ain't gonna work on YouTube's farm no more.
If the founder comes to work every day, and it's a struggle, that permeates the whole organization.
I'm suggesting that, until America takes care of its debt, untangles the housing mess and gets unemployment under control, we all commit to working six days a week. Yep, move the standard 35-40 hour work week right up to 48 hours.
There is no luck, you work hard and study things intently. If you do that for long and hard enough you're successful.
People can easily make millions of dollars without much work in America.
This is a speculative space and no one has made it work yet. So there is a lot of work to do. Frankly, I'm not sure how many of these we'll do We're going to see how this one goes and grow from there.
In the technology industry, a 48 hour work week would be, for most, a vacation.
Google can say they are not in the content business, but if they are paying people and distributing and archiving their work, it is getting harder to make that case.
Go work at the post office or Starbucks if you want balance in your life.