Heh, at that level the job is just meetings and emails. You can do 996 of meetings and emails for a few millions a year without burning out.
Actual craft tasks like writing code tho? Definitely a recipe for burnout and shittier output, yep.
Actual craft tasks like writing code tho? Definitely a recipe for burnout and shittier output, yep.
As a coder, you can accommodate downtimes on that schedule. You also see the result of your work (even code compiling is a dopamine hit). None of that exists if you’re meeting customers and investors - you’re playing the odds all day long and have to be 100% on all the time.