392.You're Not Getting More Done

The Real Jason Duncan Podcast · Sep 9, 2026 · 11m

In April of 2007, Arianna Huffington collapsed in her office, hit her desk on the way down, and broke her cheekbone. Her doctors tested her for everything. The diagnosis came back as burnout.

What almost nobody repeats is what she said afterward, and it wasn't about her health. She said her performance would actually have improved if she'd committed to unplugging and recovering. She isn't saying she should have built a smaller company. She's saying she'd have built the same one better.

Jason walks through the case against the hours: Elon Musk telling reporters that nobody should work 120-hour…