How do we define being "the best at technology"? In software there are some types of tasks that truly benefit from any additional hour worked, but plenty of oth

How do we define being "the best at technology"? In software there are some types of tasks that truly benefit from any additional hour worked, but plenty of others for which that is actively counterproductive. I'd say I've done some of the worst work of my career during the weeks of deepest crunch time. Many of the people I've known closely who've worked like that long term have had stress-induced medical problems. It's also interesting to point to Olympians here...elite athletes follow carefully planned training programs to balance training and rest to avoid overtraining, and while the best of the best can work up to massive training loads, there is a point for every human where additional training hours start to negatively impact your performance. To my understanding, recent research actually suggests elite athletes should sleep a couple of hours per night more than most people, so in some way a key piece of "doing anything to win" involves scheduling time to do nothing at all.