Thanks for all the great discussion here & thank you Jess for submitting my article to HN. (In case anyone is curious, Medium currently credits this post with 1

Thanks for all the great discussion here & thank you Jess for submitting my article to HN. (In case anyone is curious, Medium currently credits this post with 13,362 views on my Medium post.) I have another HN account--sadly underutilized, I have to admit--but didn't want to tie it to my real name, so here's a brand new baby account for this thread... I'm glad to see a few comments here from other ex-Yahoos who felt the same thrill I did when Marissa came to Yahoo. It really was like night and day. I've seen a lot of discussion here, on Twitter and on Medium critiquing the way I responded to Marissa's late-night email habits. For a lot of people it seems late emails from an executive are a negative and demonstrates an expectation that others also be on email at 1 AM. I was surprised by that because I've always really enjoyed working for workaholic/fanatic CEOs, but I understand because I've also encountered some toxic personalities who do use late night email runs to demonstrate that they're "working harder" than everyone else (when in reality they're only putting more work into playing the game, not into deliverables). Because that was never remotely the case with Marissa, I didn't even think about it while writing. With Marissa, hearing from her late at night sent the message "I'm always thinking about what you need from me," not, "I'm always thinking about what you should be doing FOR me." Of course, I'm a little bit of an unhealthy fanatic workaholic type myself, which is definitely part of why Marissa is such a powerful role model for me. She doesn't pretend that her sleeplessness or fanaticism is the most healthy or balanced way to live, and she doesn't advise others to be exactly like her. She just demonstrates that being naturally that sort of person is survivable and is compatible with having love and happiness in your life. That alone was huge for me. If I can be who I authentically am and survive it and have people around me who love me anyway, even if I shorten my life and don't necessarily have human relationships that are AS fulfilling as a Type B personality might be able to have, I'm ok with that outcome.