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Re:An email from Elon Musk to employees: “Communication With... by dkersten on Monday September 04, 2017 @11:01AM (#15168662)
In my personaly anecdotal experience, it eventulally leads to burnout, health and relationship problems. After doing two startups and working way too much for way too little, I now strongly believe in a healthy work-life balance. Hell, I’m looking at reducing my worked hours (for less pay) because I now value my non-work free time much much more than I did before.

But.. to each thir own, I suppose.

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Re:An email from Elon Musk to employees: “Communication With... by joshribakoff on Monday September 04, 2017 @12:41PM (#15169306)
Yes you have to find balance. It might be 100 hours one week & 10 hours the next. I work just as much as everyone else over time, it just comes in bursts of creativity. Some light bulb goes off & then I can't sleep until I have my idea working.
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Re:An email from Elon Musk to employees: “Communication With... by dkersten on Monday September 04, 2017 @08:11PM (#15171632)
Ah, bursts of creativity/activity I can understand and do myself. I suppose my point is more that its not sustainable to work such long hours, not that it can’t be done successfully every so often without long term problems :)

I also find that sometimes “my time” looks an awful lot like work in the sense that I might do very similar things (hey, I enjoy programming!), the difference is that one is done on my terms, when and how I want and I do it to relax, have fun or otherwise do something I want, while the other is something I do because I have to.

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