When even the billionaires start arguing against work, you know we've gone way too fucking far. from a new interview: “You are not a slacker if you cut yourself some slack,” a wistful Gates told the forestry and engineering graduates of Northern Arizona University (NAU) over the weekend in a commencement speech, which he later published to his personal blog, Gates Notes. “When I was your age, I didn't believe in vacations. I didn't believe in weekends. I pushed everyone around me to work very long hours.” “In the early days of Microsoft, my office overlooked the parking lot — and I would keep track of who was leaving early and staying late.” Intense! But as Gates admitted shortly thereafter, his eyes-on-the-parking-lot level of intensity may not have been entirely healthy — not for him, and definitely not for the people around him. “But as I got older — and…
