“you have to ask yourself the question when you're on your deathbed and you look back at your life are you going to say damn I wish I had worked harder basically nobody ever says that”

The deathbed test as a stop-rule for one-more-hour bargaining

A blunt heuristic for deciding whether to push through another late night: nobody on a deathbed regrets working harder, which makes the marginal hour past a reasonable stopping point almost always a bad trade. Useful as a hard stop when the brain is bargaining for 'just one more push.'