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Why should we sleep? :)

Alexandr K on March 19, 2019

These days I am working on full time for the great game company from Canada but in the same time, I would love to do more in my free time as develo...
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Angelique

As someone who has worked in the field for awhile, I want to speak out about how unhealthy this headline is. Challenge yourself to take care of yourself as a whole being, a whole person, not just someone who creates code and pixels.

There's a lot to learn and great things to build, but we need healthy, whole people to do that work, not folks who are overworked and headed toward burnout. Rest and relationships are worthwhile endeavors for developers, not just their commit histories. 💜

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Grzegorz Ziemonski

There’s a good book on the topic called “Why We Sleep”. Highly recommended!

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Alexandr K

thank you! going to search for audiobook version to save some time :)