Always On by Andrew Dumont. It was my first startup.
I was 18 and we had just raised our first real financing round – $250,000 from a local angel group. A lot was riding on us, even though the scale seems minuscule in hindsight. We had just upgraded from a basement to an actual office, and we were on top of the world. Numbers were rising and the team was growing, it felt like we were invincible. The change of work:life balance... Is There Life After Work? Tips for work-life balance. Explicitly acknowledge priorities Start by listing your priorities in life.
If factors like "health", "happiness", or "family" rank below professional goals, your long-term priorities are not stable. It is too easy to implicitly prioritize work ahead of everything else. If those inverted priorities persist, a crisis--injury/sickness, depression or divorce--is inevitable.