When you are working for the man, it makes sense to sandbag goals. When you start working for yourself, when you or your own boss, you are screwing yourself. And what may be a good strategy to like invest working at Google or Facebook is to just do as little work as possible by sandbagging goals and working three hours a week Or whatever people do. But if you're used to doing that, and that's how you think all things should work,. Well, and you better believe that big company you work for didn't have that culture when it was starting.