Sabbaticals.

Let's start this off by extolling the virtues of just getting the hell away from everything for a while.

I didn't take off an entire year, but I did take a few months off to sort out how I related to this high-tech stuff. Here's a highly ambitious man, Stefan Sagmeister, talking at TEDGlobal about how taking a year off every once in a while helps him out.

Of course, this is not practical for many people. But if you can figure out how to make it practical, I highly recommend it.

Of course, now the rest is over, and I'm heading back into it!