A well structured, balanced life with the focus on family. It possibly leads to some degree of happiness and stability, but this seems so boring for being a CEO. Where's the action! Most the time seems wasted on minor daily routines that could be squeezed into 1 hour.
A day in the life of a CEO
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#62> @ryancarson can you blog about how you spend your day running your biz? What biz activities do you focus on now that the product is up? The person on Twitter clearly asks about the business . The author then proceeds to write 18 points about his day, only five of which are actually about the business, including some gems like, "Crank through todos" . Does this guy think he's a celebrity or something? Why am I inter…
If you are reading a "day in the life of" article written by someone, I think it follows that you are interested in all the things that happened in that persons day. If not, why are you reading the article?
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#63He can go to bed at 10 pm and wake up at 5 am? I go to bed at 10 and wake up still extremely tired at 7 am...
that may be because you actually oversleep. unless you're very young (<20yo), 7h of sleep is likely all you need, and anything less than 6h or more than 8h will leave you tired and lacking energy.
source?
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#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
People want to "live the life", I guess. You can't blame them for wanting money, free time, power, celebrity, and a beautiful family. I think that shooting for success in a "balanced" life is a great thing. What that balance is varies tremendously by the individual. My only beef is when sideline critics go ballistic just because someone works hard and wants to be a part of a team that works hard. Take a look at the H…
I can't blame people for working in order to have money, bargaining in order to keep some free time. Those are constructive. Dominating everyone and being known by everyone are greedy goals which won't make you happy. If you want a spouse and kids you had better think they are beautiful. People go ballistic when you suggest that they are obligated to accept terrible working conditions where they don't have (for examp…
People go ballistic when you suggest that they are obligated to accept terrible
working conditions where they don't have (for example) any free time to spend
with their beautiful family.
I'm talking about people going ballistic when there's no true obligation in question.
We're in a high-demand industry where you can normally go get another job. I'm not saying there aren't exceptions, but typically there isn't a need to suffer in a bad job. When I don't like my work/life/compensation balance, I find a new job. People I work with do the same thing.
Hell, HN is a site dedicated to people who have or aspire to creating their own companies to mold the work environments that suit them and the people with whom they wish to work. Read the article this thread is attached to. Ryan Carson is living a work/personal life balance that is enviable by many standards. I would argue that in order to allow people like Ryan to go out and do what they want, you need to allow other people who want different work/life/compensation balances to pursue the environments they want. Freedom of choice and encouragement to experiment would seem to be a much greater set of principles to embrace, rather than sniping at hard workers from the sidelines because their idea of working through a Saturday evening with their team while they're trying to get that big contract isn't your cup of tea.
What place does glorified perpetual self-victimization have here?
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#65The important thing to note is: "When Treehouse was Now that we’re about to hit 50 full-time employees, I spend all my time ‘steering the ship’. I suspect some of the vitriol here is due to the relatively large audience of entrepreneurs in startups less than half his size. To be more relevant, I'd love to see his schedule when he was a 3-5 person company.
I'm more interested in people who remain operational as founders or CEOs in larger (>25) person companies. I've never seen good come from being entirely about todos, delegation, etc. in large companies -- all the great people I know remain hands-on even past the point where it's necessary.
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Does this guy think he's a celebrity or something? Not to slam the guy, but if you examine his submission history, he seems to be using HN as a tool to build his "personal brand". Regardless, readers upvote it.
It people find the content valuable, does it matter if he's gaining something from the exposure? Come to think of it, aren't a lot of the people who post here doing it (at least partially) to promote themselves or something they're building? I mean, I freely admit I am, for one[1]. [1]: Fogbeam Labs, the up-and-coming Open Source collaboration/knowledge-management company. http://www.fogbeam.com Go there now and sign…
> It people find the content valuable, does it matter if he's gaining something from the exposure?
No. Nothing wrong with tatsuke95 giving the reasons why he thinks the emperor has no clothes either, though.
Maybe if the consensus at HN is that some organizations are over-using link bait for self-promotion, a little more awareness of that isn't a bad thing.
Personally, I found the link to have a couple of interesting tidbits, but I welcome contrary thoughts on the value of the article as long as they're stated reasonably politely and appear to have some logic behind them.
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#67>5:05 AM - Make a point of appreciating all that is good about my life, instead of immediately rushing into my day. I often take a deep breath and sit out on our deck for a few minutes. Is this meant to be satire or something? This was seriously put into his schedule as a 5 minute task?
Most people don't actually take that time, even if they could easily find the time. (I, for one, don't take the time, even if I end up clicking on links on Reddit like a zombie at the end of the day)
So having it on a schedule isn't a bad thing. I think it's in a previous post that Ryan was talking about that as a mini-meditation. Many people meditate at specific times, he just does it at a smaller scale, and I'm sure it's still better than nothing.
Re: A day in the life of a CEO
#68> @ryancarson can you blog about how you spend your day running your biz? What biz activities do you focus on now that the product is up? The person on Twitter clearly asks about the business . The author then proceeds to write 18 points about his day, only five of which are actually about the business, including some gems like, "Crank through todos" . Does this guy think he's a celebrity or something? Why am I inter…
Does this guy think he's a celebrity or something? Does that matter? If you find the content valuable, does it matter whether or not he thinks he's a celebrity? Conversely, if you don't find it valuable, does it matter whether or not he thinks he's a celebrity? Maybe it would be better to focus on the message and not the personality behind it? He's the "CEO" of a small company most people have never heard of. I'm not…
"wantrepreneur"... I love it. That word alone deserves an upvote.
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#69Am I the only one that feels Ryan's blog is mostly hacker news link bait, every article is pretty fluffy stuff that gets a lot of upvotes. I'm not sure how much actual value you get from knowing his schedule
Feel the same way, and can't help but wonder why these articles keep getting upvoted.
Side note - reminds me of my first FOWA, where Ryan hogged a majority of the QA time from each presenter to ask questions about his own business. I admire his business success, but to me, he comes off as self-centered.
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#70Question for Ryan: I know you said you work 4 days a week at Treehouse. How well do you respect that? Do you do any kind of work during the weekend or just errands, relaxing and family time?