I thought the conventional wisdom on Hacker News is that you should sleep well, exercise, eat right, and have a good balance of activities, even if you are a startup founder.
I thought the conventional wisdom on Hacker News is that you should sleep well, exercise, eat right, and have a good balance of activities, even if you are a startup founder.
And then pull an all nighter filled with Monster and Red Bull.
There's a bit of a dissonance in the community. On the one hand we agree with all of this talk about balance, on the other hand the culture is still very much an overgrown frathouse. We're touting the merits of working smarter while at the same time playing up the "code through the night!" hackathons.
We'll find our way out of it eventually.
I would say, on average, programmers are worse at these things. Free food & booze and a job that makes it easy to work wherever, whenever certainly doesn't help.