I think that the advice he is referencing is less about the amount of work and more focused on the distribution of the work. As a computer science student, I gradually found myself discovering this same work distribution over the first two years of my program, so I think that this advice could definitely be more beneficial than just telling people that are early in their CS program to work hard.
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I think that the advice he is referencing is less about the amount of work and more focused on the distribution of the work. As a computer science student, I gradually found myself discovering this same work distribution over the first two years of my program, so I think that this advice could definitely be more beneficial than just telling people that are early in their CS program to work hard.