if you aren't fighting to reduce the workweek what are you even doing

Welcome to June in the #clt region! Ugh. 🥵 We get a little break early in the workweek. #ncwx #scwx #cltwx

Afternoon Legends!!!! Something I found interesting today: why we have weekends. 💰 Henry Ford is often credited with popularizing (though not solely inventing) the modern five-day, 40-hour workweek with Saturday–Sunday off. In 1926, Ford Motor Company implemented it for factory workers (building on earlier steps around 1922), keeping pay the same. Ford’s Logic: Time Money = Spending Ford (and his company) already pioneered high wages with the famous $5 workday in 1914, which doubled typical pay. This reduced turnover, boosted productivity, and created workers who could afford Ford cars. The two-day weekend extended this thinking: Workers with more leisure time (beyond just one exhausted Sunday) would actually use their higher earnings. A six-day week left little opportunity for shopping, travel, or family outings. With Saturday and Sunday off, employees could Ford explicitly tied leisure to economic vitality. He viewed “lost time” in leisure not as waste but as essential for sustaining demand for manufactured goods. Without consumers who had both disposable income and time to spend it, mass production would falter All by design….

Jobs consume far too much of people’s lives. 5-day workweek with 8-hour daily. Only being given 2 days a week to handle household responsibilities, connect with loved ones and rest is not sustainable. Something is always falling through the cracks.

Spent the morning wrapping up the client report and grabbing a quick coffee with the team—small wins that make the workweek feel manageable!

I have addressed all of this in older tweets. I’m aware of what people are going through now. I literally create jobs. I wouldn’t say it was easier to get a job in 2006 actually. It was different. We had access to less resources, no networking, there was less studios, when you’re poor it’s hard to move for opportunities. A lot of developers from this time say the same. We know our portfolios from then likely wouldn’t be competitive now, but we also didn’t know what studios wanted, we couldn’t talk to devs and ask, there were no tutorials. The one thing that remains a constant is that I would put in the hours and commit. Because this was all I ever wanted. And it’s still all I want. I won’t feel shame for that. You don’t like what it took for me to be here then you simply don’t like it. And I get why. It’s not for everyone. Why would I lie and say it’s easy. It’s always been hard. Is it worth it. For me, yes. Is it for others? That’s for them to decide. Some yes. Some no. I don’t exist in a vacuum. I would warrant I know more about what graduates are going through than you, given I work with universities and I hire them. I’ve said many times I don’t want people to have to go through what I did and it’s why I started a studio. Feel free to check. It’s a 40hour workweek with paid optional overtime. Yet many of them are still spending their free time doing art. Life is not about having to do it all the time, I’ve gone through periods of not doing anything productive, but then that’s when I’ve just stalled. the fact remains that if you want to create opportunity, you have to put in the time. It’s the one thing you have under your control and if you don’t do it you will not get an opportunity. Because I’m not the only person with this mindset, I am surrounded by artists who live and breathe what we do happily. And that’s who people are competing with. You cant stand on a football pitch, unwilling to run, then complain that you shouldn’t have to in order to be a pro-athlete. Feel free to stand with the ball by your feet, but someone else will take it and run.

over the years, I picked up a few hobbies I never thought I would enjoy, like skateboarding and boxing. yet every Sunday afternoon, the depression still kicks in.the only thing that saved Mondays for me is trading stocks. for a few hours, I forget that life is basically an infinite 5 day workweek loop. And yeah… staring at charts is somehow more exciting than sex now. 📈😂

Stocked up on iced coffee, snacks and instant noodles for the busy workweek ahead! Ready to power through

Finland's youngest prime minister has proposed a four-day workweek with six-hour daily work hours She stated: “I believe that people deserve to spend more time with their families, their loved ones, their hobbies, and other aspects of life”

Coffee run with my favorite teammate = perfect start to the workweek! We even stopped to chat about that upcoming project on the way.

Just tried the new smart coffee machine, and waking up to a perfectly brewed custom latte at 7 AM Total game-changer for my workweek mornings! ,