Introducing the 70-hour Work Week

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I question the notion of work week. In fact I seriously doubt the whole "work/life" separation -- it just feels like a false dichotomy. Sure there are tasks that are best done "at work" and other best done "at home". But I frequently sit in my office thinking about hobby projects, and think about work stuff when watching movies or tv. Further, I try to tie hobby stuff and work stuff together.

From a different angle: I spend more time with my office mate than I do with my girlfreind. I eat as many meals with the group admin assistant as I eat w/ her. It seems that writing this off as "just work" is dismissing a huge portion of my life.

I understand that I am lucky in that I love my work -- but still, instead of measuring things like work week, why not have articles and posts and what not devoted to "how to better integrate and avoid the redundancies".

I'm not sure about the concept of a 'work week' either, but it's plain to me that the dichotomy of work vs life is a useful one.

Anyone who has ever worked from home is probably aware of how much less productive they are without creating clear work/home boundaries even when working from inside the physical home.

For instance it's difficult to accomplish much with children barging in demanding spaghetti-o's every 3 minutes, or with the surround sound system blaring some movie with copious cannon fire from the next room.

Without creating that arbitrary boundary between work and 'real life' much less work gets accomplished and 'real life' becomes another burden to bear.

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