Good for Andy. Burnout happens but acknowledging it is half the battle. Going "back to zero" is necessary when you run fast all day, every day. As a matter of fact, companies should do this too sometimes...

Even Robert Redford says it (not exactly a computer hacker ;-): http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/about.aspx?id=12440 "It was about: I was tired. I was 40 years old. I had a decade of hard work that took me very often away from my family, who mean a great deal to me. And I thought, "If you're not wise —“ It, it’s important sometimes to stop at the height of things and to re-, re-stock. Go back to zero. Take yourself back to zero. Sometimes you have to do that yourself and constantly — to be able to rejuvenate and keep going, you have to sometimes start all over again. And I felt it was the time for that. I'd been very rewarded in the business, done a lot of films, had just directed my first film, had had a tremendous reaction. I said, "You know, this is probably a good time to stop and step away for a while and, and reevaluate my life.”