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Isn't that long hike still really hard work? Doesn't that relationship still require really hard work?

Just cutting out the stupid make-work doesn't take something from being ridiculously hard to being easy.

Not easy, but measured. In general I'd rather have someone who maybe thinks about a problem while having a life during the weekend then walks in on Monday with a place to start from, than someone who slept under the desk in between heroic coding sessions. There's a place for both, but having the time and mental energy to gain and maintain perspective is also necessary. You (or at least I, and many people I've worked with) do better work when they have a high thinking to typing ratio.

No, a long hike is not hard work, just ask Tim Ferris, or Miguel De La Cuadra Salcedo.

If a relationship requires hard work, then you have not the right partner to you, it's just natural, like hiking.

I think is way harder and unnatural to spend your time programming in front of a machine that hiking and loving someone, but maybe that's me.

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