What wartime ‘munitionettes’ teach us about burnout
I&#x27;m getting &quot;burned out&quot; of these nihilistic work life balance articles.<p>Show me anything revolutionary that was done by a group of people that weren&#x27;t obsessed to the point of neglecting the rest of their life. True, productivity drops after 40 hours. But not to zero. You are 2&#x2F;3 as productive at 60 hours a week. That&#x27;s still more productive than not working at all.<p>People literally worked to death during The Apollo program to get to the moon. Same with every major Infrastructure project like the Hoover dam, disease eradicating efforts like the Salk polio project etc. Do you think spacex is launching space internet satellites built by people who have plenty of time for their hobbies?<p>It&#x27;s ok to be obsessed. Find something you actually believe in and if you&#x27;re being worked to death on something you don&#x27;t care about well, quit. Can&#x27;t &quot;afford&quot; to quit? Then reevaluate your life to figure out what&#x27;s worth risking  being homeless to do.<p>Or continue to work towards some milquetoast weekend hedonism, but stop shaming the idea of being obsessed.