[serjester]

> When I first started at Microsoft, I had a sleeping bag in my office. I coded until 11pm nightly and slept until 3am, at which point I’d code until ~6am, then sleep until my first meeting ~10am.

It’s everyone’s pejorative on what they want to focus on in life, but this is pretty insane. Obviously it worked out for him (so we think), but this sounds like recipe for a couple divorces and kids that hate you (even if he eventually slowed down somewhat).

[david-gpu]

> pejorative [0]

I think you mean prerogative [1].

[0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pejorative

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prerogative

[datadrivenangel]

It's everyone's prerogative. But I certainly am a little pejorative towards the author, as whatever microsoft was building seems unlikely to be that deserving of an endeavor. The world has a place for enterprise b2b software, but I don't think it's a calling worthy of that type of sacrifice.

[tpm]

Prerogative. Although pejorative will do in this case.

[philk10]

also seems a recipe for poor quality work once you're over 40 hours a week