Not excusing the comment, it's pretty harsh. It seems that everyone praises the prioritization of family over work. The quote that's brought up goes like: "Wh

Not excusing the comment, it's pretty harsh. It seems that everyone praises the prioritization of family over work. The quote that's brought up goes like: "When you’re gone would you rather have your gravestone say, ‘He never missed a meeting.’ Or one that said, ‘He was a great father'." This supposes that the acceptable thing to do for any human being is to desire having a family and caring for your own kind. It also supposes that work can only be a succession a meaningless events. I see another take on this. I see that some projects can be life projects. Some of those life projects can happen to be 'work'. Desiring the completion of a life project, as your mean to live your humanity, is as valid in my opinion, as the desire to fulfill your humanity through the experience of family. When you look at someone like Elon Musk and criticize him for not caring about family, you criticize him for having a different set of priorities than yours. The argument is an appeal to emotion and some assumed higher truth. It's not valid. There's more than one way to focus your life. You don't have to focus on having and raising children. You might want to do that. Or not. --- That said, it's pretty rude to expect other people to focus their life on a project instead of their families. However, I can understand that a leader desire that their company be formed of people likely focused and minded.