On working too hard: finding balance, and lessons learned from others
I found myself nodding along to almost everything in this article; Two comments:> The problems pulled me in, and I’d get so involved I’d be unable to sleep until I solved a problem, sometimes escaping into my dreams if I hadn’t found a natural pause point.I can relate to this, so much. It's an incrediblely productive time period when my brain is like this at 7/8/9pm, but inevitably I lose out on a day or two following it. It sounds cliched, but exercise + mindfulness are a hard requirement for me, and not doing either of those inevitably has my brain racing on whatever I'm working on at 4am.> Grey found me at exactly 5pm and forced me to logoff.Nobody ever told me to work late, but nobody ever told me to _stop_ working. If my boss/bosses boss/ came up to me a once or twice and told me "hey, you shouldn't work past  PM", particularly in my first few days, _and most importantly_ they left too, that would have set an excellent example on how to have a work-life balance.