Former twitter engineer here. Maybe he paid more attention at his other companies but Elon was comically clueless about how the twitter machine worked. Hiring geohot and thinking a firmware cracker could make heads or tails of a massively distributed system was pure idiocy.
Totally. Matt Yglesias calls this the “crank realignment.”
https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-crank-realignment-is-bad-for
That’s been my survival mechanism. I’d be homeless otherwise but I was able to hyperfixate on work related things and become a workaholic after failing out of school (where I couldn’t focus on courses I didn’t like).
My life/work balance has never been good, but its awesome to be fixated on the thing people pay you money to do.
If you like sound design, the sound design in Don’t Starve is by far the best ive ever heard. It is the game that convinced me of your point.