> Sacrificing your potential to comfort isn’t a hedge against an early death – it IS an early death<p>Ridiculous. I'm so tired of people not only telling me that working for a large corporation and then retiring early to support my family and achieve other goals like travel and hobbies makes me a <i>bad person</i>. It demonstrates a total lack of empathy for people who aren't like the author of this piece.<p>> I’m urging you, especially at the dawn of your career, to instead choose life over balance, and make the work so meaningful that you wouldn’t want it to exist as a distinct concept.<p>This person works at freaking Palantir. Tell me again how their work is <i>so meaningful.</i>
I am not sure what is the use of this wordy screed on "Work / Life balance" when it does not contain the words "wife" or "children".