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Efficiency plus hours beats everything
The ruthless schedule
Founders in their forties and fifties with families get ruthless about time. They get up at 5 or 6 a.m. and do two hours of work, have breakfast with their kids or drive them to school, put in an intense seven hours, have dinner and a movie with the family, and get back on email at 10 for another hour.
Ruthless with calls
That ruthlessness extends to calls. A salesperson who asks for a quick 20-minute phone call gets asked for the best price instead, plus a short recorded Loom video of the three new features, which gets played at double speed.
Hours follow energy
Hours follow energy. Seven hours of sleep is possible even for a crazy young person who stops watching TV. A founder who was 40 pounds heavier found that after losing the weight his thinking was crisper and his energy changed completely.
Why do sleep-deprived founders make more mistakes?
Researchers Ann Williamson and Anne-Marie Feyer reported in 2000, in Occupational and Environmental Medicine, that 17 to 19 hours without sleep impaired performance as much as a blood alcohol level of 0.05 percent. Sleep loss slows reaction times and weakens attention. It also affects judgment, the part of the brain that weighs risks. Their paper compared sleep deprivation with alcohol across several tasks.
Why does double-speed video save time?
People read and listen at different rates, and speech is slower than most people can take in. UCLA researchers led by Dillon Murphy found in 2022 that viewers' comprehension held up at double speed but dropped at faster rates. Recorded videos allow that speed-up. Loom, the screen recording tool, was founded in 2015.
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