Jack Dorsey Is Gwyneth Paltrow for Silicon Valley
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Re: Jack Dorsey Is Gwyneth Paltrow for Silicon Valley
#2Shows that engineers in Silicon Valley aren't any more skeptical than Hollywood. We may consider ourselves smarter, but we're just as susceptible to bullshit as anyone.
Re: Jack Dorsey Is Gwyneth Paltrow for Silicon Valley
#3Can't read the article without making an account but the first paragraph is a real zinger.
>Young men are staggering around, hungry for days. They are throwing themselves into ice baths and cryotherapy pods. There are not enough beds at the silent vegan meditation centers to accommodate them. They need more near-infrared bulbs.
Re: Jack Dorsey Is Gwyneth Paltrow for Silicon Valley
#4Can't read the article without making an account but the first paragraph is a real zinger. >Young men are staggering around, hungry for days. They are throwing themselves into ice baths and cryotherapy pods. There are not enough beds at the silent vegan meditation centers to accommodate them. They need more near-infrared bulbs.
The NYT paywall is far more porous than the WSJ one (you might just need to browse incognito), but here's a bypass anyway: http://archive.is/HOP4M
Re: Jack Dorsey Is Gwyneth Paltrow for Silicon Valley
#5It’s sad how people cargo cult imitate the people who inspire them to such a degree it becomes disconnected and degenerate. At least with Steve Jobs there was a certain distance to the admiration. (They admired the accomplishments, rather than his persona —maybe it helped that he was “mercurial” and gruff), but with smooth talkers like Dorsey or Paltrow who look so wholesome, much reason is thrown out the window. At least Paltrow is excusable because she’s just taking advantage of a culture centered on “celebrity”. But the cargo culting of Jack has little excuse.
Re: Jack Dorsey Is Gwyneth Paltrow for Silicon Valley
#6Well, scratch Twitter off the list of places I'd work. What bizarre behaviour.
Re: Jack Dorsey Is Gwyneth Paltrow for Silicon Valley
#7Can't read the article without making an account but the first paragraph is a real zinger. >Young men are staggering around, hungry for days. They are throwing themselves into ice baths and cryotherapy pods. There are not enough beds at the silent vegan meditation centers to accommodate them. They need more near-infrared bulbs.
The NYT paywall is far more porous than the WSJ one (you might just need to browse incognito), but here's a bypass anyway: http://archive.is/HOP4M
Thanks! I don't want to pass this one up.
Re: Jack Dorsey Is Gwyneth Paltrow for Silicon Valley
#8This is really a perfect title.
As somebody who grew up in Michigan not far from Battle Creek, I've always been interested the history of wacky self-improvement regimes. (You may remember "The Road to Wellville" as one look at that. [1]) E.g., the inventor of Graham flour believed in all sorts of self-harshness: "Graham created a theology and diet aimed at keeping individuals, families, and society pure and healthy - drinking pure water and eating a vegetarian diet anchored by bread made at home from flour coarsely ground at home so that it remained wholesome and natural, containing no added spices or other 'stimulants' and a rigorous lifestyle that included sleeping on hard beds and avoiding warm baths." [2]
I know these things are cyclical, so I expected it to come again. And as a someone who's currently trying eTRF [3] I think there's real value in self-experimentation. But it's really weird to see a full-blown health fad complex turn up in the tech industry where we see ourselves as so very rational.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_to_Wellville
Re: Jack Dorsey Is Gwyneth Paltrow for Silicon Valley
#9While Dorsey is rather extreme, his lifestyle is a lot healthier than the average American’s or most everyone’s in the developed world. Eating junk food around the clock is really bad for you. Note that Dorsey isn’t fat and diabetic like so many people these days.
Re: Jack Dorsey Is Gwyneth Paltrow for Silicon Valley
#10This doesn't seem all that different than say typical celebrity culture followers (Paltrow falls into that category) who adapt it to a sort of lifestyle.
I find it a bit weird as I've not found any folks who I want to emulate what they eat or emulate their lifestyle in general. Granted I'd like to be healthier but that's a thing, not a person.