Knee deep in production for I Love Your Work, and I am sick. Not acutely so. Just with the low-level, long-lasting, flu-like symptoms caused by extended sleep deprivation and high levels of stress.

This, of course, is no surprise, nothing new. The last time I produced a film, I dropped nearly fifteen pounds. Those who know me will attest that I’m not a large individual, am already rather svelte. In short, I don’t have 15 pounds I can healthfully lose.

Similarly, Adrienne Gruben, the co-producer on I Love Your Work (and fast becoming one of my all-time favorite people), recently confided that she had been hospitalized for liver damage after a prior shoot. And she hadn’t been drinking.

There is a word in Japanese, “karoshi,” which literally means “death by overwork.” For the first time, that concept is beginning to make a lot of sense.