Work-life balance is about seasons, not daily perfection

When I think about work-life balance, I don't use the word balance, I use optimization. It's this question of what are you optimizing for right now? Whether it's today or this court or this year, with the understanding that I don't think you can have it all at the same time all the time.

I think the three things are your health, your relationships, and your work. Those are probably the three most important things.

If my life were to end in a year or in 10 years or some time horizon that's shorter than I expected, who are the people I would've wanted to make sure I spent time with?

Consistent pressure over time as being more of my motto... You just have to keep working at it, and not giving up.

You still need to put in the effort and our number of hours is effort. You have to spend the time, effort, and energy into growing. I think a lot of that is getting lost in the debates between complete workaholism and just being not very serious about your growth at all.

The only way you're going to win right now is if you work your ass off, because all these little AI companies run by kids in their twenties are literally working 12 hours a day, literally 365 days a year.