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all these companies could have been built with booze, sleep, and fun.
I would add “no eating”, who has time for that when you have a founder video to make
Indeed. Eating is found to be a major cause of wasted billions of hour per day in the world. Can you imagine productivity growth if people just stop eating.
all these companies could have been built with booze, sleep, and fun.
live like a monk to build a chatgpt wrapper that imagines what your cat is thinking! Give up on time with your social world to create a phone app that turns the things you say into ad data!
How do you get former founders to put in that kind of dedication to _someone else's company_?
Also, are these actually AI companies? By what definition? Corgi's home page appears to be _only_ a list of open positions presently, none of which are ML/AI engineers.
I noticed there is zero mention of burnout in the article, which is exactly what every one of these founders will get if they keep pushing at the crazy pace they are going at, and highlights the problem with this kind of mentality. Burnout is a bitch, at least in my case it felt like I developed ADHD. Couldn't focus on anything, couldn't remember things that were said at meetings. I managed to pull back and now thing…
That said AI founders are not the general population and there are a few strong selection criteria biases that I think likely favors those who are likely to burn out.
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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.
Not sleeping is disastrous for productivity. Why would you advertise to your investors, customers, and coworkers that you’re intentionally cognitively impaired?
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And if it's not a requirement, but simply something that is enjoyed? What utter tosh.
If one requires it to achieve enjoyment then it’s a dependency. It’s not a controversial or unusual thing. We got to be honest to ourselves.
I noticed there is zero mention of burnout in the article, which is exactly what every one of these founders will get if they keep pushing at the crazy pace they are going at, and highlights the problem with this kind of mentality. Burnout is a bitch, at least in my case it felt like I developed ADHD. Couldn't focus on anything, couldn't remember things that were said at meetings. I managed to pull back and now thing…
I think there must be a genetic predisposition to burn out as I have noticed many people that should be burning out but do not. My burnout was clearly genetic (hEDS) as is the burnout of everyone I personally know. Looking at the stats of people hospitalized with Covid there appears to be a subset of people who will die before experiencing a level of stress that could induce burnout or even trigger post viral fatigue…