AI Startup founders have a winning formula: No Booze, No Sleep, No Fun... for their employees.
AI Startup Founders Tout a Winning Formula–No Booze, No Sleep, No Fun
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#12No Booze is the only item on this list that is helpful (as someone who has been the personal coach to Unicorn Founders over the last 20+ years, currently with a waitlist). For certain, the elimination of all alcohol will help everyone achieve more in life. If this triggers you, consider you may have a drug problem. No Sleep kills your energy and productivity. You need proper sleep to be your best. Could you imagine a…
> For certain, the elimination of all alcohol will help everyone achieve more in life. If this triggers you, consider you may have a drug problem.
Oh please. What a puritanical take. There is nothing wrong with the moderate consumption of alcohol - a glass of wine a week is hardly dependency.
Re: AI Startup Founders Tout a Winning Formula–No Booze, No Sleep, No Fun
#13No Booze is the only item on this list that is helpful (as someone who has been the personal coach to Unicorn Founders over the last 20+ years, currently with a waitlist). For certain, the elimination of all alcohol will help everyone achieve more in life. If this triggers you, consider you may have a drug problem. No Sleep kills your energy and productivity. You need proper sleep to be your best. Could you imagine a…
I quit alcohol completely maybe a year ago and it has been nice but I didn't get any sort of dramatic power-up that some people claim. I suspect a lot of the people who quit alcohol and talk about it loudly are those who had a pretty harmful relationship with it to start with. That's not everyone though.
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#14If AI actually makes development faster, shouldn't going without sleep or fun or life be less necessary - otherwise what is the point of it all. If anything, keeping healthy with a balanced perspective is even more called upon and valuable with AI offloading work in the loop.
The booze I can take or leave but is laughable to give up booze but then impair your judgement another way with a low sleep schedule.
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#15Archive Link: https://archive.is/LtZFs
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#16what happened to microdosing on lsd or drinking raw untreated water? i'm so behind
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Re: AI Startup Founders Tout a Winning Formula–No Booze, No Sleep, No Fun
#17No Booze is the only item on this list that is helpful (as someone who has been the personal coach to Unicorn Founders over the last 20+ years, currently with a waitlist). For certain, the elimination of all alcohol will help everyone achieve more in life. If this triggers you, consider you may have a drug problem. No Sleep kills your energy and productivity. You need proper sleep to be your best. Could you imagine a…
> For certain, the elimination of all alcohol will help everyone achieve more in life. If this triggers you, consider you may have a drug problem. Oh please. What a puritanical take. There is nothing wrong with the moderate consumption of alcohol - a glass of wine a week is hardly dependency.
If it’s a requirement, it is a dependency.
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#18I worked crazy hours in my early 20s because I liked it. I liked computers, I liked my team, and to be frank, I had not much else to do. If I went home early, I would be spending time on the internet anyway.
But the thing is, unless you're building your own business, it just doesn't matter. No one will remember this in five years. In a corporate environment, every doc, every line of code you wrote will be replaced or forgotten far sooner than you suspect. Two or three reorgs later, your team might not even exist as a distinct entity. There will be no statue of you in the hallway after you're gone.
It's also not your family. If you become any sort of a liability, if you make an off-color joke, if the revenue metrics are off by 5% - thanks kid, here's the door. The first layoffs you go through will be devastating precisely because they crush that illusion. Yeah, your manager might be a genuinely nice and caring person, but by the end of the day, if they're asked to sort a spreadsheet with your name in it and then draw a line somewhere, they will, and there will be "nothing they could do".
The only lasting thing you're getting out of the heroics is the money you save, the skills you learn on the job, and for a short while, the reference you get from your old boss when you apply for the next job. If you optimize for that, you'll probably have a satisfying career. If you don't, you wake up one day realizing that you've given up a good chunk of your life to make Sam Altman 0.01% richer, and that's that.
If a company is demanding that you sacrifice social life and well-being, ask yourself what's it worth to you. Are they paying more than anyone else? Or do they just want to get more kLOC out of you for free?
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#19Don't take your health and lifestyle advice from start-up founders, episode 36. Elizabeth Holmes writes the same kind of nonsense. It's just an attempt to pass themselves off as exceptional beings who owe their success solely to their talent and iron discipline. I don't know anyone who can keep going in the long term by neglecting their sleep and their physical and mental health.
Well, in what other way could they justifify the compensation they ask for?
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
> For certain, the elimination of all alcohol will help everyone achieve more in life. If this triggers you, consider you may have a drug problem. Oh please. What a puritanical take. There is nothing wrong with the moderate consumption of alcohol - a glass of wine a week is hardly dependency.
If it’s a requirement, it is a dependency.
And if it's not a requirement, but simply something that is enjoyed? What utter tosh.