For some jobs, hours worked isn't a practical measure of productivity or value. I used to pick orders in a warehouse. The more hours I worked, the more orders they shipped, the more orders they could take, the more profit they could reap.
Now I work as a data analyst. I have some required duties spelled out in my position description, plus a catch-all "requests from other divisions as assigned." If I'd spend more hours working, nothing would really change. The only guaranteed value for each hour they're paying me is having me on call that hour. Which is worth something, I guess, but good luck calculating it.
"A key function of good enough parenting is to provide the essential background to allow for the growing child’s disillusionment with the parents and the world, without destroying their appetite for life and ability to accept (external and internal) reality."
is a banger quote.
In practice it is so hard to just go along with this disillusionment. I can't do it. Kids come home totally bored at school and I'm supposed to say "get used to it, your life will be full of drudgery!" Nah.
I think that one of the core jobs of a parent is to gradually introduce children to reality. Too much too soon is bad for them, and too little too late is also bad for them.
But I don't think I'd ever say that life is destined to be full of drudgery. Life is what you focus on. That can be drudgery, sure, but it equally can be something else. I wouldn't want to prime my children's outlook to interpret life as full of drudgery. I want their outlook to focus more on the rewarding and fulfilling parts of life and to see the drudgery part as the work you do to get the rewarding part.
That’s what my mom said to me. Didn’t really get me used to it though… maybe that’s the point? Tell them life is going to be boring during their phase of rebellion and you’ll set them up to chase something better for the remainder of their days?
I appreciate that the MAU sliders are powers of 2. It really needs the enterprise pricing though. ld pushes you into those plans in surprising ways so it's easy to think you're going to get to stay on pro, but then surprise! it's enterprise time.
In my startup we track another number in order to normalize our compensation.
We do a quick "expected valuation" calculation on the share price and use that, instead of the 409a or the valuation. This is how I actually value it in my own head, so we just kind of canonicalize.
example: I think there's a 1% chance 1billion a 5% chance we make 100M. A 40% chance we make 20M. So that's a 23M and then I calculate the value of an option based on that.
Using that, I can then try to "match" a salary from a public company. So we set our comp as 80% of the google levels.fyi data. (Chose google bc it has the fullest levels.fyi data).
This gives us a full compensation benchmark for any roles / levels. ie a Sr engineers makes 263k. But we pay 140 in cash and 123k in equity.
Then I can explain to an engineer. We feel like we're paying you as well as you would be paid at google, but you need to believe that we have a 1% chance at a billion. 5% chance at 100M etc. They can easily tweak these expectations too so they can compare offers. If they think there is a zero percent chance of 1B they can adjust the offer themselves in their head.
I think those are all good choices and I don't judge you for k8s. It all depends if you know it already. We use GKE with auto-scaling kubernetes and it's great and took 2 day to get it terraformed sufficient to where it feels like what I had at my old job.
If/when you need to start "real company stuff":
AngelList
Mercury
Ramp
Rippling
HubSpot
Just no idea how to measure it.
Hours at laptop? Hours thinking about it? A 1 min slack reply at 8pm, does that count as 1min?
I could argue that I work anywhere between 25 and 60 hr / week.