Despite how normalized and even lauded it is, I would argue that even then it isn't good. Some amount of people will always be subject to all-consuming passion for a specific subject or goal, but these generally come at a high personal and social cost for the individual and those closest to them. Pursuing them in the face of these costs is at least a bit of a personal weakness, and should be considered a mild-moderate social transgression, along the lines of heavy drinking or poor anger control, perhaps.
"A company" is probably the wrong venue to pursue it, when it must be pursued. I think we have a lot of people like this right now because we encourage, praise and reward this behavior. But I don't think we should generally want people to burn their lives into pursuits in this way, and so should consider it at least uncouth, if not exactly morally wrong.
"A company" is probably the wrong venue to pursue it, when it must be pursued. I think we have a lot of people like this right now because we encourage, praise and reward this behavior. But I don't think we should generally want people to burn their lives into pursuits in this way, and so should consider it at least uncouth, if not exactly morally wrong.