Some orgs did that and it generally didn’t go well (eg Leverage Research). I think most people believe that totalizing jobs are bad for mental health and create bad epistemics and it’s not worth it.
Working hard together with similarly minded people seems great. Never taking a break, and isolating yourself from the world, is not.
People working at startups usually get at least free weekends, and often have a partner at home who is not a member of the startup. If you never take a break, I suspect that you are optimizing for appearing to work hard, rather than for actually being productive.
I’m not proposing to never take breaks. I’m proposing something more along the lines of “find the precisely-calibrated amount of breaks to maximize productivity and take exactly those.”
Working hard together with similarly minded people seems great. Never taking a break, and isolating yourself from the world, is not.
People working at startups usually get at least free weekends, and often have a partner at home who is not a member of the startup. If you never take a break, I suspect that you are optimizing for appearing to work hard, rather than for actually being productive.
I’m not proposing to never take breaks. I’m proposing something more along the lines of “find the precisely-calibrated amount of breaks to maximize productivity and take exactly those.”