I'm getting tired of this "everyone should work as I do" mentality.<p>Does everyone work well past 8 hours? No. Do some people fucking love it, live for it, are great at it, and wouldn't do it any other way? Fuck yes.<p>Every single one of these pieces reads as a justification for why the writer doesn't work as many hours as the person he's writing about. He creates this gangly strawman who's overworking for all the wrong reasons, and inevitably burns out, but this just doesn't represent reality.<p>Sure, people burn out, sure people overwork, but that is <i>not</i> the inevitable conclusion everyone's trying to paint it as. Some people have more work endurance than others, period. Sure, you work hard for 8 hours and go home, but the guy you bash worked just as hard as you did for the same 8 hours, and then he stuck around for another 5 or 6 hours and kept working just as hard.<p>There's unnecessary glorification in getting no sleep and eating like shit - that's a signaling problem, and has nothing to do with the acts themselves.<p>I just don't get why people refuse to accept the fact that there are others out there who can do more than they can. It's true for <i>literally</i> everyone (except one guy. In the world.).