[throwaway713]

> If you don't do it, there's always a willing colleague who will

Haha, isn't this the truth. I work at one of FAANG as well and was curious how one of my colleagues was accomplishing so much. His output is astonishing. I checked his work profile and noticed he had commits, notes, and research actions starting at 7:00 AM and going until 1:00 AM the next day, every day, including weekends. I don't think the founder of this company ever even worked that much. I guess there's just some people who never burn out. Meanwhile, my wife gets annoyed about dinner when I work past 6 PM...

[heretoo]

> there's just some people who never burn out

I once read there is only concrete that has either already cracked or is about to crack.

[mikro2nd]

One place I was consulting to had a dev who only ever committed code in the wee hours of the night. By day he'd fiddle around with all kinds of unproductive crap, but by night he appeared to be a productivity daemon.

Turned out he was outsourcing his work to a job-shop in India... Couldn't actually programme worth a damn.

[purerandomness]

Give him 6-9 months. He'll disappear, all of a sudden.

We all do this. Once. When we grow up, at ~23.

[kabdib]

Once, at 21 (an Atari game). Again, at 31 (the Apple Newton). And again, at 41 (the Kinect).

Every ten years or so I get stupid, I guess.

I guess I finally wised-up when I turned 51, we'll see if I stay that smart in a couple of years :-)

[purerandomness]

I guess the key here is that you can totally immerse yourself in something that doesn't feel like work; a project that fullfills you from the deepest of your heart.

That tends to happen once every 10 years.

It doesn't tend to happen in day-to-day grunt work at an AdTech shop, pushing JIRA tickets.

[frank2]

Maybe he uses a script to make commits to give the appearance of working all the time.

[the_gipsy]

Oh he will burn out, eventually.