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None of those things were products of their work environment.

Einstein was able to always study and Sergei Brin was able to work like a maniac precisely because they were able to remove the restrictions of paid technical labour that drains your brain before you even get to the interesting stuff.

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Exactly. Even if I want to do something in my own time that's similar to my work after hours, I have no personal energy to devote to that unless I'm rested or very desperate. It's rare that I actually boot up an IDE on my personal machine.

Einstein was working and studying in his free time. Just because you don’t have that energy doesn’t mean it’s a companies fault.

Absolutely yes, it is. Or if not their "fault", then at least it is the direct cause for me not having any more energy afterwards. You don't expect a mine worker to come back home and do a bunch of manual labour, why would you expect a mental worker to do the same?

You must be joking. You can choose to leave the company and do whatever you want with your free time. I know craftsmen who come home after work and work on their own craft.

Programming is no different. Other developers code in their free time. If your low energy maybe you need to fix that part?

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