Optimal vs Maximal. People will use the first when they mean the second. Cranking any single knob (especially work) up to 100% at the expense of everything else is definitionally maximization. Hustle/grind culture is a soulless, maximal, blight. Dumb work practices like “996,” most of the performance-enhancing drivel that winds up in my LinkedIn feed, the overwhelming majority of “VC advice” I…