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You don't seem to understand that everyone probably needs those 15 hours of wind down time and doing something mindless [e.g. TV, video games] is how they do that.

It isn't self deception. Just like I know that I'm less productive at complex problems at 3am, I'm less productive if I'm doing it for 11 hours a day instead of 8.

You can become mentally exhausted to the point your work output is worthless because you make stupid mistakes that take longer to QA.

The cost of me making a mistake for 8 minutes? ~$10,000. The cost of me being properly rested, properly QAing things, etc. is not as expensive as the damage of a single mistake a year.