In some fields, if you choose to not allow work to follow you home, you have to be at peace with not having certain opportunities. That horse is already out of

In some fields, if you choose to not allow work to follow you home, you have to be at peace with not having certain opportunities. That horse is already out of the barn. My wife is an academic; and there are two parallel careers going on with her. First, the work of the day. Then there’s “homework” - Zoom committee meetings, reviewing papers as journal editor, constant, year-round. Possibly Cal Newport has discovered something that most of the academy has not. But much of academic work and politics of the academy goes on after hours. I’d imagine other fields are similar.