[giraffe_lady]

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.