Fellow badgers beware: learn to manage yourself before those behaviors become toxic to you and your craft. While you will be loved and praised for delivering a

Fellow badgers beware: learn to manage yourself before those behaviors become toxic to you and your craft. While you will be loved and praised for delivering a month-long project in days, management will skin you alive when things go wrong, and if you're lucky enough to not burn yourself, management will slowly take you for granted and treat your manic fire as an expectation, your baseline, and the waning admiration will drive you to push yourself even farther, perhaps beyond your capacity to deliver and perhaps to the point of self-neglect. Learn to treat the high that comes with grueling sprints like a drug, and the thrill you seek as a potential addiction. Prioritize your health and sanity above your work. Balance your blazing endeavors with spans of discipline and patience where you focus on the quality of your work and your life. After all, you can't succeed if you're dead.