Humans don't last long at a 100% duty cycle. Anyone with half a brain knows that.
Congratulations on being able to leverage your foolishness to drive traffic to your blog.
Congratulations on being able to leverage your foolishness to drive traffic to your blog.
Also, what's this about driving blog traffic? He didn't work himself into the ground with the intention of writing a blog post about it.
This doesn't sound healthy to me. I wonder if anyone can really argue with that. That's 10 hours per day at least! Adding 8 hours of sleep, only gives him 6 hours to do EVERYTHING else in his life. That's friends, family, leisure, excersise, but also groceries, commuting, cooking, cleaning, walking his dog.
It might be a big part of tech culture, but just because a lot of people do it, doesn't mean this guy should. I would hestitate to call this guy stupid, but let's call it naive then.
He never slept for 8 hours. He mentions in his blog, that he was taking catnaps in place of real sleep. Surely, the restorative effects of sleep would have reduced the probability, if he'd managed to get enough of it. So perhaps it was more like 8-10 hours for remaining things (if you add entertainment to the list, it does take time). And just 4-6 for catnapish sleep.
What really got me, though wasn't the lack of sleep. I was okay with six or so hours a night. The problem was not having the time to shop and prepare food, and not having the time to exercise. I gained something like forty pounds over three years, and by the end I felt like crap all the time.
It took a long time to get that weight back off and get everything balanced again.
I dont disagree, but do you have a source on that?