> structuring your life completely around work is a fools errand.

Structuring your life completely around anything is a fools errand — work, video games, family, food, etc.

Unless it’s not. Maybe the only thing you care about in the world is your family and you’ll ignore everything else. Maybe video games are your truest passion and you’ll do whatever it takes to play them 80 hours a week.

Maybe I love CRUD apps and Jira as much as my next door neighbor loves his wife. Who’s to say?

If you want to devote your entire life to one thing, go nuts. It’s probably going to have some consequences whether that thing is work or not.