I'm doing some research on the dynamics of founding teams. One of the core elements is understanding patterns in technical founders - particularly how much they code.
This is part of our general interest in how successful people spend their days: http://blog.zenlike.me/category/how-they-work/
But it'd be able to quantify some of our research with data. Thanks for any help!
I find that my patterns of productivity when varies a lot when coding. Occasionally I get in 'the zone' where I have laser like focus and can knock out hundreds of lines of code in a night. Other days, I have no inspiration and write next to nothing.<p>Can you clarify how you would measure a percentage of a day (are you referring to a 24 hour period or the awake hours)? I think a more sensible metric would be to ask how many hours per day on average does a technical founder spend coding.<p>Averaged out in the first few months, it must be around 40-50% of my day. (~5-6 hours max).<p>I find it hard to believe that anybody could clock more than 70-80% sustained for more than a week. With 8 hours of sleep a day, you would get 16 hours of potentially productive time. 80% would equate to ~13 hours of coding leaving you with 3 hours for meals and general 'life admin'. That's not much.
Think I'm a hybrid vs. pure technical founder, though I am doing all the frontend and in theory will be doing some of the backend too. I spend 90% of my day coding.