You should never work on weekends unless you’re doing one thing.

Her words soared across the Twittersphere, inciting thousands of reactions: “Unpopular opinion: the best thing young people can do early in their careers is to work on the weekends.”

If we wanted to be pedantic, we could call venture capitalist Jordan Kong’s tweet more of a hot take. But still, I agreed so much with it that I thought it would be one of those unpopular opinions that wasn’t that unpopular. I couldn’t have been more wrong.

Responses range from descriptions of working on the weekend as a “never-ending wealth-chasing capitalist hellscape,” to an inevitable path to “zero time with their friends and family . . .  zero social skills, have no life experiences, and suffer from mental burnout before 30,” to “sell yourself body and soul for companies that don’t even bother with your mental, physical, and financial well being.”

Y Combinator cofounder Paul Graham supported Kong’s tweet, noting responses that equated work with earning an income. He replied, “for the ambitious, they are far from identical.” Kong clarified that work “can mean different things: could be a project that you own at your day job, could be a new skill you need for advancement, could be a side hustle you love.”