I agree with your post, but have trouble reconciling it with the Modern Resume, which suggests blogging, tweeting, and speaking about your professional life, in addition to the work you do for your employer. I say "in addition" because I think most employers budget for and expect 40 hours of your time to be spent on the work they want done, and probably don't want to pay you on 10 hours a month or so to work on your personal brand, so this work bleeds into the home life. I certainly am all for a good work/life balance, and I am also for the Modern Resume idea, I just worry that it contributes to an improper work/life balance. I'm really struggling with this these days. I'm trying to get some blog posts going, but it's just not happening very quickly (there's that lawn to cut, the birthday party to plan, the drain to fix...). Achieving a balanced life, while being ambitious, has probably never been easy, but I wonder if our increasingly connected world, and our desire to leverage that, is making this even harder?

Save early and often is very, very good advice, btw, advice I got and wish I had followed, because there's no making that up now.