One thought I had while reading this was just: you run slower during a marathon, but marathons are still really hard.
Maybe this comment conflates working more than average with giving “everything … including their soul and weekends”?
It’s tricky because different people perhaps need to hear different things here. I’d like to have a culture where it’s possible for people to work normal hours in EA jobs. But I also know people who work more than average because they care deeply about their work and are ambitious, without seeming (to me at least) to be on the verge of crisis.
One thought I had while reading this was just: you run slower during a marathon, but marathons are still really hard.
Maybe this comment conflates working more than average with giving “everything … including their soul and weekends”?
It’s tricky because different people perhaps need to hear different things here. I’d like to have a culture where it’s possible for people to work normal hours in EA jobs. But I also know people who work more than average because they care deeply about their work and are ambitious, without seeming (to me at least) to be on the verge of crisis.