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AI founders may be working 9am to 9pm, six days a week, but psychologist and executive coach Peter Carnochan argues the more useful question is whether those hours are chosen or imposed. In a Forbes Councils essay published on 9 October, he draws on his work with Silicon Valley executives and cites a Wall Street Journal report. This is his account, not a sector-wide measurement.
Why it mattersCarnochan says the AI race can make switching off feel like losing ground. His answer is less stopwatch, more agency: time away should be genuinely restorative and present, even when it is limited. That is a sharper test than another neat work-life seesaw, though choice is easier to celebrate when you have it.
Discuss: Should AI founders’ long hours be treated as a personal choice, or as an industry norm companies ought to challenge?
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