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I agree with the points you try to make about the importance of a work/life balance. I don't come from any kind of start-up background, but I've found that even in regular jobs there is a noticeable productivity cycle that I experience mentally, making the argument for balancing work / life (ie rest). What I experience is like a life cycle but for my attention span/productivity. I start off fresh, become very creative, critical and able to function at my optimum and then my interest starts to decline. Whenever I would find myself crashing I'd follow my natural instincts and take a break. I'd chat with coworkers or surf the net for something that interested me until I found my interest in these leisure activities start to decline. Then I'd come back to work, refreshed and re-interested. Needless to say that in my department I held the highest amount of workload, I was the most productive and I had by far the best attitude, which was the most important thing of all since those with a bad attitude dragged down everyone else around then, decreasing others' productivity potential, thereby creating compounded productivity problems. I think this kind of attention-span or mental focus cycle is normal and healthy. It's like our mental microchips over-heat if we dwell on a certain thought train too long. I only wish someone with so-called credentials would "discover" this and bring it to the attention of the human resources corporate-culture gate keepers. I understand productivity is key in capitalism, but if we're going to make productivity the most important thing, while putting our own human needs aside, then we might as well live in a communist economic system. Whether it's about the "masses" or the "economy" it still all boils down to the same thing: the entity who holds onto the net benefit winds up being the afore mentioned curtains "the masses" or "the economy", not human beings. This inability to enjoy the net benefit is supposedly the reason why we oppose communism as an economic system. And no, stuff is not a net benefit; stuff becomes burdensome due to maintenance needs, gets old and thrown out, and only provides momentary satisfaction anyway. People should ask themselves why China has proven to be the most successful economic power since the birth of capitalism (discounting euro nations & US since they grew only because they siphoned other nation's resources). It's because China fused together two effective resource-allocation systems that are mirror images, complimentary and thus an explosively productive combination: communism and capitalism. |