Since it's easy to confuse, it's worth explicitly highlighting the benefits of, above all, ultimately, maintaining a healthy work-life balance.
You and the author, together, are correct.
Someone may achieve 'balance' at 30, 60, 80 hours a week. YMMV. But the operative phrase is 'balance'.
I also consider the phrases 'unnecessary' and 'signaling problem' far too light to describe the ill effects of '[glorifying] getting no sleep and eating like shit'. It is a fucking cancer.
As an industry and a niche, we're really bad at promoting this.
Some may argue the weight on the other side of the seesaw - the startup or product you work on - has such dismally low possibility of 'taking off'/earning you life-changing money/etc that it's not worth putting a premium on work hours, as opposed to living and enjoying your youth.
You and the author, together, are correct.
Someone may achieve 'balance' at 30, 60, 80 hours a week. YMMV. But the operative phrase is 'balance'.
I also consider the phrases 'unnecessary' and 'signaling problem' far too light to describe the ill effects of '[glorifying] getting no sleep and eating like shit'. It is a fucking cancer.
As an industry and a niche, we're really bad at promoting this.