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But can you do it and have a social life, a family, a balanced diet, good health, etc...

• fuzzfactor 2y ago
  Good question, I decided to pace myself far from burnout and ended up only getting 90 years experience in 45 years. It was still worth it in a scientific field which each year builds rather than eventually drops out of support. There's almost nobody walking around with even 45 years of experience, and far less who made compounding progress. It was hard to pull ahead to begin with, and never-ending effort to maintain, but once there is a tangible edge you can leverage, then it only grows over time. I may be very lucky for good health right now, but maybe it can be due to not having a very similar social life, family, or diet, relative to the mainstream to begin with ;)
• simonw 2y ago
  Based on my own experience, probably not. When my startup was acquired a decade ago there was a six month period of extreme overwork and stress to get that deal over the finish line. Diet, health, social life all fell apart completely. I feel like it took a solid year to fully recover from that! (I was using a Withings digital scale at the time and you can pretty much plot the entire progress in terms of my weight gain.) Six months is pretty extreme, but I think the occasional three month period once every five years or so may be tolerable for a lot of people.