>But perhaps the most telling element of all of this is St. John’s own experience. In an interview by Christopher Redner [2], St. John himself suffered burn out at Microsoft to the point where he “got himself fired”. “He would pass out at his keyboard and straggle into morning meetings with key marks on his face. Worked sucked everything out of him; his marriage disintegrated.”
>According to a Shacknews interview from 2007 [3], St. John was going through a “messy divorce” at the time. He wanted to get fired rather than quit, because that ensured he’d retain his stock options for Microsoft.
[1] http://www.kotaku.com.au/2016/04/alex-st-johns-ideas-about-g...
[2] http://www.informationtechnologyleaders.com/stvid.html
[3] http://www.shacknews.com/article/46338/alex-st-john-intervie...