In today’s article, Philip talks about how he believes work-life balance is a myth if you want to level up. I’ll share how I find work-life balance while continuing to build my career. Americans enjoy greater prosperity than Europeans due largely to longer work hours. But I have little doubt most coders working 45 hours produce more, in total, than when working 40 hours. Tim later joined Google, which in 2004 definitely had worse work-life balance than Microsoft.