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by workaholic 4557 days ago
Trying to take as objective a view here as possible...

The present hacker zeitgeist disagrees with your viewpoint. Your post came at a particularly bad time, as this post is fresh on the collective's mind:

http://sethbannon.com/vacations-are-for-the-weak

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That may be true - "the present hacker zeitgeist" may disagree with my point of view. Today there's an emerging trend towards working less and spending more time with family and your hobbies (in some way, the newest book from 37signals supports that).

And, well, I don't disagree with that! Neither do I disagree in taking off some vacations, if that makes you feel better (and/or more productive).

But my point here is that we should strive to try to work on something that's aligned with our life goals - and those may include spending time with your family, traveling or building a charity. This way, work would have other meaning to us.

So your point is... to be happy, choose work, where work is defined as what will make you happy?
That's the problem: vacuousness. If work is defined as what makes you happy, there's no choice to be made.