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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
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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.
I'm pretty sure I disagree but I'm 100% certain I don't understand the rationale leading to this statement.
For any pet, if you have to act as a manager, that's IMO terrible. Management incurs performance reviews, growth and overall, judgement and control. I think a pet/owner relationship is about nursing first, with added leadership when the breed allows (dogs, horses...)
I think a study of bipolar individuals would yield similar results. I still wouldn't like to be bipolar or have toxoplasmosis.
Potentially 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?
BTW and more seriously I'm fairly sure Toxoplasma Gondi is not bacterial.
OP you been listening to the Meateater podcast?
No room for more podcasts until I finish Revolutions, so probably 2025.
I 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?
In New York's Natural History museum I found a small exhibit devoted to the effect of Toxoplasmosis on humans. The studies reported identified being untidy and poor driving skills can be caused by TG presence in the body. You could retrofit this evidence to this paper's claim it would seem.
https://www.one37pm.com/grind/entrepreneurs/perks-of-being-m...
Just for curiosity, Albert Einstein was also messy. Not sure about if he had toxoplasmosis or not, but he had two cats.
https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/369141 https://www.bluecross.org.uk/story/pets-have-shaped-hearts-a...
About poor driving skills: it could be hard to concentrate on the traffic and surroundings, if people's mind is somewhere else.
fun thought: i wonder if famed "entrepreneur" martin shkreli had a toxoplasmosis infection... he famously bought the patents for the drug that treated the infection (mostly required for immunocompromised folks) and raised the prices by some huge factor. if he was, then maybe his "entrepreneurial performance" was in service to the bug he was infected with! yes, this is a joke! (or is it?! brb. off to start a company t…
Toxo seems to be pretty darn clever
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Having a dog forces you to micro-manage. This may be fine is just starting out in a business but it does not scale.
> Having a dog forces you to micro-manage. I'm pretty sure I disagree but I'm 100% certain I don't understand the rationale leading to this statement. For any pet, if you have to act as a manager, that's IMO terrible. Management incurs performance reviews, growth and overall, judgement and control. I think a pet/owner relationship is about nursing first, with added leadership when the breed allows (dogs, horses...)
Micro-management: know where last bolus is in the dog's gut and expected evacuation time.