My favorite work-life balance commentary comes from Darren Aronofsky's film Pi : Sol Robeson You remember Archimedes of Syracuse, eh? The king asks Archimedes to determine if a present he's received is actually solid gold. Unsolved problem at the time. It tortures the great Greek mathematician for weeks. Insomnia haunts him and he twists and turns in his bed for nights on end. Finally, his equally exhausted wife... s…
I think the moral of that story is not work life balance. It's that you should work crazy, just don't forget to take a break when you're stuck. For example, I worked all day today (true story), trying to figure out some algorithm. I got stuck. So I took a walk. And it just came to me while I was taking the walk. Now I'm back and am back to work and it's super productive. If I worked like 3 hours and then went out to…
3 * 5 = 15 != 40
So why do you use the '3 hours of work then slack off' example to deride people working a typical week?