I think most folks call this vacation. A lot of employers have unlimited vacation policies to minimize their employees time away from the keyboard. It's very g

I think most folks call this vacation. A lot of employers have unlimited vacation policies to minimize their employees time away from the keyboard. It's very generous of them! More seriously, taking time away is a good thing for any career path. I think some of my best work is done when I've had time away to actually live life. Somewhere in the deep unconscious mind I'm still designing systems and compiling algorithms that might solve problems I'm working on.