WE ARE SO BACK - Day In The Life at Netflix

All right, today we have with us such a juicy day in the life that even my boss commented on it at Netflix. So, let's walk through this. Let's get out the spreadsheet and let's start marking down the time. So, right away off the rip, you can see 9:45. Now, that is obviously a just a wake up with the the roosters here. A very early worm gets the bird kind of wake up time. 9:45 a.m. You know, but I mean, the good news is you probably already worked out. You've probably probably have already eaten. You can just really hit the ground running. You know what I mean? You can just really get after work. Oh, okay. Breakfast time. Breakfast time. Classic 10:00 a.m. breakfast time. All right. Here we go. 9:50 breakfast time. So, quick little breakfast. Maybe 15 minutes spent on the Okay. 1 hour spent on breakfast. But we're back to work. Okay. Okay. Well, at least we're getting started before noon. That's positive, right? Like that's a positive thing. We're started before noon and now we're going to get some real work done >> around noon. >> I think we went backwards in time. Okay. So, I'm just going to I'm going to make an assumption here that one of two things happened. one, she mistyped in 11:30 for 10:00, which I is my is that's my guess, or B, breakfast, which was much shorter. It was more like that 15 minutes originally speaking. But I actually I just I just am going to assume probably an 11:30 because that makes more sense chronologically, at least with this whole thing. You know, we're watching this whole timeline unfold. So, I'm just going to make I'm just going to make the assumption because I just don't think this is some sort of Netflix time traveling series. This is just simply a day in the life of with an with a typo. >> Apparently, her team didn't either cuz I when I >> By the way, recording >> I hope she got permission to record. I don't know if you know this people, but you can't just record other people's voices in California. She's in LA right here. Because if you do, it's technically against the law cuz it's a two-party consent state, meaning that both parties have to agree to being recorded. Just a little fun fact just in case you're wondering. You know, this is not South Dakota. South Dakota single party consent. I can just start recording anybody at any time because I gave consent. All right. >> Okay. >> All right. 12:30 lunch. All right. We're back. We're back at the cafeteria. Let's go. By the way, I do want to throw out something there. Uh I do miss Netflix food. I mean, this this is it's very good. They catered it in all the time. And LA had even better food than Los Gatos, which hurts a little bit. Okay. Hurts a little bit. But hey, you know, that's just the way it is. Losatos, the engineering side, not as good. They obviously didn't take nearly as we didn't get this extra this this medium rare deliciousness. Okay. >> All right. A little bit of perusing. Hey, you know what? This is natural. After you eat a little bit, you got to take a little bit of a walk. You know, digestive system. It helps you. It just really helps you. You know what I mean? I think it's because he won't apologize. So, they're >> By the way, I would never want to discuss news with my co-workers. Just throwing that out there. This is just not I I generally did not enjoy my time doing this at Netflix. This is not something I want to do on the regular. >> Like a stalemate. >> All right. Okay. Okay. So, now Okay. So, okay. We are now at 1:10 p.m. and approximately 30 work uh 30 minutes of desk work has occurred this day. If I were in her shoes, I would not tell the world that I only did 30 minutes of desk work. Okay, I'm just going to throw that out there. One meeting in desk work by 1:10 p.m. seems a little crazy because, you know, I get it. Some people they're often in in a lot of meetings and so they don't do a lot of desk work at work. I get that. I'm not even trying to throw shade at that. Okay, there's the managerial classes and that's just a real that's a real thing. You got to be in meetings all day, but I'm not there wasn't meetings all day nor was there work all day. Like what what are you trying to accomplish here? What actually could be accomplished in 20 minutes at the desk? How much of that work time was spent perusing Twitter? But to be fair, to be completely fair, a lot of people on the West Coast operate in a very different time world than I do. Okay, a lot of people are out there, they're just living their best single life that they've ever lived and so they tend to work really late and they just have odd schedules that I with four kids and a beautiful wife can't possibly uh have. So, you know, I shouldn't be throwing shade this early into the day in the life of Texas. >> Oh, okay. We're going to get ready to go home. Okay, so it's been an hour and 35 minutes. So, an hour and 35 minutes of dedicated work time, you can't get a lot done, right? Like, am I just crazy to think you can't get a lot done with that? I honestly, I'm not going to lie to you guys. I've been working on this game for a while on and off. And every time I want to work on it, my heart's just like, "Okay, well, I'm gonna need to sit down and do this for like six to 10 hours if I want to make real good progress in this game. I can't just simply do something for an hour and be like, well, that's a wrap. I progress today is another day to make progress." No, I need I want time. And plus, you know how frustrating it would be to only work for this small amount of time for me? Like, I don't even want that in my life. Even if I could have it, I don't want it. I want to be able to do a lot of contiguous work because that's how I like make any sort of progress that's meaningful. All right. Maybe we're missing something though. Maybe some time in the evening and boom, we're done. And you know, because I can't, you know, there's still always evening time work. I know that's a popular thing people do. Okay, that's it. Okay, well that's okay. Well, I guess that's the end of that one. All right. Well, maybe there's not that much evening time work. All right. So, let's consult the spreadsheet. So, now let's try to really break down how much work was done. Uh, all right. So, let's see what do we got here. So, we got from 9:45. Okay. So, no work was done until 10:50. So, let's start right here. 10:50 to my assumed 11:30 meeting time would make it into 40 minutes of actual work. Okay, so we got 40 minutes of work and then we have what appears to be 60 minutes of meetings assuming that 11:30 to 12:30 is the meeting time. All right, then we go back to work at 110 and we go home at 2:45 which is going to be 95 minutes of work. All right, and then how much time is that? That's from 9:45 to 2:45. So that's 5 hours. And so 5 hours is 300 minutes. All right, so we have ourselves a bit of a a bit of something here. So just assuming that all work is equal work meaning that meetings and uh what's it called end desk work are equivalent of the fivehour day what we have here is going to be 65% of it is is work time if we take out the 60 minutes by the way if we just take that out for a quick second and just do this minus 60. So like that one work time over 300 only 45% of the time were actually doing real work. I like honestly I don't understand why people even make these videos. Like what are you trying to prove? How how is this good for you? Right? Like I get that you're going out there and it's it's meant to like brag. My assumption is to brag, right? It's the assumption is to show like look how posh and and cushy my sweet job is. Okay. I got the best of best foods. I got the best of best coffee. I got the best of best experience. And I barely even work. Okay. I just enjoy myself. Honestly, like when I look at this stuff, I just I can't help but to think of like adult daycare. That's all I think of when I see this is like, oh, this is what it's like to do nothing. I don't think I want that. I know there's lots of people that do want that, but my only time of ever having that, it made me feel hollow in the inside. I want to work. I know that sounds crazy to some people, but I do. I like working on my stuff. And even when I was at Netflix working for somebody else, I liked to work on projects. I'd find my mind spinning about some of the things I was building just because that's all I wanted to do was just build as hard and as fast as I possibly could cuz it just brought joy to me to create. And I think this is that fundamental disconnect that I have watching these videos is that my primary drive is the act of creation. I enjoy that process. Even when it's not even my product that I'm creating, I still enjoy the act of creating. And when it is mine, I enjoy it 10 times more. That's why this game, all I want to do, I just want to work on it 24/7, 365. It just brings me joy. But this one might be the the absolute crown on the top for worst day in the life. This this it shows absolutely nothing, right? Like absolutely no work getting done. And it's crazy to show that you only go into the office for 5 hours a day. It's crazy to show that you're only at your desk for like two of those hours. It's crazy to show that you're at the cafeteria for as much as you're at your desk. It's crazy to show that it was like I understand now more and more why some people think AI is going to take people's jobs. Like I get it. I get it. You cannot tell me that somebody who's adept with an AI couldn't prompt their way to getting approximately the same results. What are we doing? The name is the primogen.

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