It's not. It's usually a route to failure rather than success to begin with, but it's so culturally ingrained into the illusion of a work ethic that we've becom

It's not. It's usually a route to failure rather than success to begin with, but it's so culturally ingrained into the illusion of a work ethic that we've become a society of butt-in-seat workaholics. Getting stuff done is a prerequisite for changing the world. Growing your ass, burning yourself out, and neglecting your life and that of your loved ones (if you have any left by the time you burn yourself out) is not the way to get stuff done. It's the way to get stuff dumb, to paraphrase Steve Yegge...