I thought this feeling was extremely common, but judging by what gets to the front of HN I'm in the minority here. I think HN just likes stories about extremes

I thought this feeling was extremely common, but judging by what gets to the front of HN I'm in the minority here. I think HN just likes stories about extremes. Stories of people working 80-hour weeks do play well here, but then so do stories of people living in cheap foreign countries and working 10-hour weeks, supported by semi-passive income. Perhaps somewhere in between is 37Signals' philosophy of pretty regular workweeks (5-day workweeks in the winter, 4-day in the summer) and their "quality of hours, not quantity" philosophy.