Older staffers don't even bother coming in on weekends. Where is the sleep-crazed, Pepsi-fuelled one-point-oh tech environment that can only be created by having no green vegetables, no sex and no life?
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Modern tech work culture is characterized by extreme hours, poor health, and a lack of life balance.
- In plain terms
- The old tech environment was sleep-deprived, unhealthy, and had no real life.
- What can you take from it?
- Recognize that high-intensity work often comes at the cost of health and life.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Is sacrificing health worth the work?
- How do you define a sustainable work life?
Another view
Some roles require intense periods of work that may be necessary for success.
More from Douglas Coupland
'Why are we drinking Zima? It's beyond irony. It's not funny or anything. It's just gross. Why not just serve us jugs of Hitler's piss instead?'
Permalink to quote #85 'A girl can't control who will and who won't fall in love with her, Ethan. And sometimes, when a nuisance person falls in love with you, it can be awfully: awk…
Permalink to quote #87 'You have to admit, half the people who work here are mildly autistic; poor social skills, the ability to obsess on anything numerical or repetitive, the odd o…
Permalink to quote #84
Related quotes
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
Frank Lloyd WrightFrank Lloyd Wright quote #58 The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure and pleasure my business.
Aaron BurrAaron Burr quote #1 A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
Paul ErdosPaul Erdos quote #2