I've always been leery of people who are obsessed with work to this extent. If work is your only metric, then yeah, its great. I sure would love my employees to

I've always been leery of people who are obsessed with work to this extent. If work is your only metric, then yeah, its great. I sure would love my employees to have a 'work till you die' attitude. But life != work. Or rather, life > work. It takes all kinds to make up a society. Some of us want a balanced life; we want to be reasonably good at everything. Some others want to be the best at a certain thing and are willing to sacrifice almost everything else to achieve that goal. To a very crude approximation, those from the former group keep society going while those from the latter push human society forward. For me, Steve was an interesting curiosity. Not an example to emulate. On the face of it, there's nothing wrong with being either type, but it does seem like each type cannot fathom why the other behaves the way it does.