I think the occasional burst of activity can and does work, but it’s a budget you need to spend strategically and let it recover. Constant 996 indeed won’t work.

you are lucky to have lived a career where that is true. it is largely true in the states and sometimes true in startups. there are corners of the world where it is less true than one would hope.

> there are corners of the world where it is less true than one would hope.

And it's readily visible in terms of software quality and technological capability of the company.

and the quality of software produced that way shows