In Defense of 996
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People who are 10x engineers simply demonstrate it - Woz, Carmack, we don't ask how many hours they worked because it never mattered. Their effort is self-evident, they don't masturbate their ego or espouse hustle-culture because it isn't corollary to their success.
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