tmpberk

Recently I started your deep work approach, trying to emulate a sort of work life / off life day and planning out every minute. I have to say it's given me much more happiness, although I can't dedicate to it as much as I'd like.

My question is — when you were in graduate school for your PhD, were you able to "stop working" at 5/6pm every day like you claim in your books you do now, given how crazy graduate school is? Even as an undergrad studying CS at UC Berkeley I spend ~8 hours "working".

Hm. I already manage to get near straight As, but i'm more worried about whether choosing the graduate path would lead to a super imbalanced of life of studying and nothing else. What would your advice be? (CS PhD for machine learning versus going the easy way out as a software engineering making lots of money) ?