Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ability to be successful while functioning like this is wholly dependent on your role and the culture of the company you're working for or leading.
Sure, but don't you have control over your role? Maybe not in the short term, but in the long term you can take steps to move into a role or job where you have bigger free blocks of time. You just have to decide if that's what you value over, say, money, prestige, etc. Paul Graham wrote a nice essay where he mentioned that "prestige" is basically a way to get people to do shitty work. What I'm saying doesn't really w…
Yes, generally speaking ... but I'm in management and was speaking from that perspective. My apologies for being unclear.