It may reduce your life span by 50%, but when you consider it improves your productivity by 100x, it means you lived more of a life than those that didn't.
(Also, I'm assuming this post is a joke, but some of the comments here seem to ve taking it seriously)
I too thought it was a joke, then the comments made me doubt myself
I tried looking up his blog post history to get a sense of his style. This is his first blog post, so the jury is still out.
Reducing my life span by 50% means reducing the total number of layoffs in my life so maybe this is a win-win?