Involved in development with pretty insane schedules, 14-18+ hrs/day pretty often and weird as it sounds enjoying my activity immensely. Marijuana keeps me focused at times without a single Alt+Tab for most of the day. Far from ideal or healthy and I wouldn't recommend this to anyone however truth be told there's also a perennial race against time, if I'd be to stop the company would probably grind to a halt.
Never talked about this with anyone and would never even dare interacting with people in public in an altered state of mind but luckily we're a decentralized team. I'm also conscious about the bad part of this being gradual social retreat/isolation and inability of engaging with people at chit-chat/informal level. In my case though satisfaction from seeing an algorithm flying is just too great - but I'm also lucky of having a really supportive (non-smoker) partner, life without this aspect would most probably look much much different.
Never talked about this with anyone and would never even dare interacting with people in public in an altered state of mind but luckily we're a decentralized team. I'm also conscious about the bad part of this being gradual social retreat/isolation and inability of engaging with people at chit-chat/informal level. In my case though satisfaction from seeing an algorithm flying is just too great - but I'm also lucky of having a really supportive (non-smoker) partner, life without this aspect would most probably look much much different.