Maybe the elites aren't lizard people, but cat-people (khajit?). So subservience to cats has an adaptive function in the business world? /s
May we all walk on warm sands.
Toxoplasmosis associated with entrepreneurial initiation and performance (2020)
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
Cats are quieter and less needy than dogs. They take care of themselves and don't bark at neighbors. How are you supposed to start a new company with a dog pawing at you?
Dogs are indeed more demanding, they henceforth grow your sense of responsibility, which aligns with the required skills of entrepreneurship.
Having a dog forces you to micro-manage. This may be fine is just starting out in a business but it does not scale.
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#33I wonder if they'll connect the third leg of the triangle and figure out that entrepeneurship is mental illness.
Perhaps better described as a form of masochism.
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#34I wonder if they'll connect the third leg of the triangle and figure out that entrepeneurship is mental illness.
Yeah, really felt like they were too zoomed in on one effect of a mindset shift. They could just as easily have said "cats lead to increase in resignations without a solid financial plan in place."
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#35I wouldn't be surprised if this is a correlation. My quality of life increased significantly after I got my cat about 2 years ago (just before COVID!). I say to anyone who ask, getting a cat was likely the best decision I ever made. Since then I became a lot more entrepreneurial and productive. I don't believe neither me nor my car has Toxoplasmosis gondii (my cat was tested for this when I brought him home). My cat…
Tangent: I'd like to see the effects of dog adoption on pregnancies. I have witnessed and heard about a non insignificant number of young couples hesitant to having kids (because careers, mostly) deciding to adopt a dog for varying reasons. Typically, less than 18months later, boom, baby.
I think many people use it as practice/test. I have definitely see the pre-baby puppy often, but I have also witness the pre-breakup puppy where one partner turned out to be a poor caregiver.
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#36I wouldn't be surprised if this is a correlation. My quality of life increased significantly after I got my cat about 2 years ago (just before COVID!). I say to anyone who ask, getting a cat was likely the best decision I ever made. Since then I became a lot more entrepreneurial and productive. I don't believe neither me nor my car has Toxoplasmosis gondii (my cat was tested for this when I brought him home). My cat…
Cat ownership is one of the least likely ways to become infected with toxoplasmosis - far more likely is contact with undercooked meat. In fact most studies suggest it is not an important risk factor at all.
https://www.bmj.com/content/321/7254/142
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3497129/#!po=4....
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#37This is super interesting to me, and I wonder how long before someone intentionally gives themselves TP before founding a company. Considering the threads I saw on HN about homebrewing covid vaccines, I can't imagine it'll be long.
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#38Potentially interesting how this relates to tropes. So often the evil villain is seen with a cat in their lap. Could this common stereotype have been driven by bacterial infections all along?
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#39This is super interesting to me, and I wonder how long before someone intentionally gives themselves TP before founding a company. Considering the threads I saw on HN about homebrewing covid vaccines, I can't imagine it'll be long.
It's not that easy to get it unless you enjoy playing in a litterbox. Meats can also transmit but that seems to be a very low likelihood
It's really bad news for pregnant women and immune defective people
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#40I wouldn't be surprised if this is a correlation. My quality of life increased significantly after I got my cat about 2 years ago (just before COVID!). I say to anyone who ask, getting a cat was likely the best decision I ever made. Since then I became a lot more entrepreneurial and productive. I don't believe neither me nor my car has Toxoplasmosis gondii (my cat was tested for this when I brought him home). My cat…
Cats are quieter and less needy than dogs. They take care of themselves and don't bark at neighbors. How are you supposed to start a new company with a dog pawing at you?
I'd say cats are on equal footing with dogs when it comes to needy. Cats just may not exhibit it as much