Comment by amznbyebyebye

I have friends who burned out at AWS after a stressful launch. Believe it or not the effects are still there a whole year later. Many are just doing the bare minimum required to stay alive. My conclusion is there is a constant optimal pace which maximizes total work produced.. mind you there are probably other ways to mode effort as a function of time which maximizes total work done over a fixed time interval.. for example there could be a short amount of high intensity work but then you burn out and don’t get anything done for the next six months. The net output may be the same, of course the toll on physical and mental health may not be optimal