Shorter work week doesn't mean you can't work more. People like Carmack (and me) would still fill up most of our lives with "work". But there's a big difference

Shorter work week doesn't mean you can't work more. People like Carmack (and me) would still fill up most of our lives with "work". But there's a big difference between doing it because you want to and doing it because you have to. I worked for a little while in a scientific institute. I worked as a programmer but I had to know a bit of the science to do my job. I quickly realised that I would never be truly successful in this field because I just wasn't as into it as others were. For many of the people there the science was their life. Similar to how computers was my life before I worked there. My work could never compete with their passion. The point of the shorter work week is to stop forcing people to do what they don't want to do for so long.