| I’ve gotten a lot better at balance over time. In the early 1990s, especially during the early days of Winternals, when I was working at IBM and writing a book, I’d come home from work, pull out the laptop, and sit down with my wife in front of the TV, still working on the laptop. I’d even take the laptop to bed sometimes. I stopped doing that after a while and have now gotten to the point that, when I come home from work, I’m basically not at work anymore. I still check email after dinner, but I’m not doing any active work in the evenings anymore unless there’s something really critical. On the weekends I do work, but the work for me, whether it’s writing magazine articles, working on a presentation, working on Sysinternals tools, or working on something for Windows, is a hobby as well. That’s what’s great—my career is a lot of fun. I don’t view it as work. Computers have always been my hobby. The fact that I get to go to work and work on my hobby and get paid for it is just fantastic. Whereas a lot of husbands on the weekends spend the afternoon playing golf or watching sports, I use that personal time to do stuff that other people consider work.
I get up at 5:30 or 6:00 and work between 30 and 60 minutes catching up on emails and miscellaneous things. I get to the office around 9:00, after exercising in the morning. I leave the office around 6:00. I guess I don’t really add up the hours, but that’s a typical day for me. | 
