About 12. I've optimized my life to a point where I have no outside disturbances beyond my work. I have 3 days left of my day job, then I'm taking my own business full time.
I've been working 7am - 3pm at my day job, 4pm - 11pm at my side projects. Dropping the day job.
He's getting out of the corporate world. A few years of double duty can be worth it.
It's not a way to live forever, but for people who can work like that, for a few years it can suit them really well.
The con of the startup racket is that so many people think they're buying their freedom with the 16+ hour days (and have been misled into believing that) when, in fact, the proportion who actually become billionaires or major venture capitalists is pretty terrible.
Awesome. Good luck, and I hope it works out for you.
I'm productive about 8hours in the day, but I put in 10-12 daily.
Overtime I'll start feeling like my managerial duties are productive uses of time. They are, but as a hardcore technologist, it's tough to shake the if !programming then wasting time.
I've been working 7am - 3pm at my day job, 4pm - 11pm at my side projects. Dropping the day job.