The energy drink pyramid scheme reminded me of Thunder Muscle from 'The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret'.
The Dangerous Fetishization of ‘Hustle Porn’
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#112I use to believe this bs. I thought people who took vacations were slackers and people who left the office before I did were lazy. In 2014 I started cutting my medication (bipolar 1 disorder) in half so I could sleep less and work more. Long story short, ended up back-firing leading to a 9 month leave of absence. In the end it was the best thing that ever happened to me. Working smart is the way to go IMO.
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#113I think what gets me about Gary V's "hustle porn" ethos is that most people don't realise he had a career for AGES selling wine for his family wine business and making wine tasting videos for over a decade on youtube. He's posted over 1,000 wine tasting videos. Long before he was known as the hero of hustle porn he was spitting cali cab in his Jets bucket and waxing lyrical about the palate of said wine. I love wine…
Is this sarcasm...? Producing a 10-20 minute wine tasting video 2x weekly sounds both enjoyable and easy for people who like wine.
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#114There's nothing wrong with hard work. But there is a lot wrong with the idea that you need to work until your health is impacted to succeed; if you need to work that hard, something else is off - the idea isn't good enough, you're attacking it in the wrong way, whatever. To me this ties into the gross, pervasive trend of wantrepreneurism. Shark Tank, Zuck, Elon Musk - being a founder has never been sexier, never been…
One of the best things that happened to my entrepreneurial career was realizing that I wasn't cut out for every aspect of the entrepreneurial career. It took a failed startup to realize the things I don't do well. So now I offload them to others. And I'm so much happier for it.
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#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
“Cargo cult” gets thrown a around a lot, and I enjoy comments like yours that bring it back to its roots.
Cargo cult means imitating something for the sake of it, not doing rain dances or other backwards stuff.
UPvoted because you were wrong and presumably lots of other people were wrong but quiet about it -- so now you and they know the actual answer.
Explained the upvote because I don't want you to be confused.
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#116This reminded me of an essay by Amy Hoy: https://stackingthebricks.com/entreporn/
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#117There's nothing wrong with hard work. But there is a lot wrong with the idea that you need to work until your health is impacted to succeed; if you need to work that hard, something else is off - the idea isn't good enough, you're attacking it in the wrong way, whatever. To me this ties into the gross, pervasive trend of wantrepreneurism. Shark Tank, Zuck, Elon Musk - being a founder has never been sexier, never been…
GaryV was a major investor in FaithBox, a company that knowingly incurred huge bills with my company that they'd knew be unable to pay (I run a 3PL). The switched to another warehouse for two months and did the same to them, then they "sold" to a firm in Omaha in a supposedly $0 asset-for-debt sale, and the buyers are trying to get out of paying me ~$60k. My lawyers are on it and I expect to get something out of them…
Many of these people whose brand is promoted the way GaryV does seem to be like this - and few seem to have the balls to call them out. I met Gary. He's definitely one of those overly keen on technology being able to save us all. The old-school values on personal reputation in business have certainly faded. The strange thing is that people act baffled when their reputation is ruined... See Theranos, for example. Holmes continues to behave as if there are no consequences for fraud - and maybe there are not for her.
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#118Agree with this 100%. Hustle porn is toxic and and the ethos needs to be avoided. It is clear why people latch onto the narrative. Working insane hours is a way to conceal incompetence. When your boss or employees come knocking and sees the complete waste you have made of your task, you can point at your complete lack of social life and how much you have martyred yourself for your company as proof of your competence.…
>I do weight training after work every day.
Dunno about that; you're supposed to have breaks so the muscle has time to repair itself unless you're just not pushing.
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#119This is all fine and dandy but let’s be real. How many of you can solve:
Given n non-negative integers representing an elevation map where the width of each bar is 1, compute how much water it is able to trap after raining.
In N(1) space and N time
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#120Agree with this 100%. Hustle porn is toxic and and the ethos needs to be avoided. It is clear why people latch onto the narrative. Working insane hours is a way to conceal incompetence. When your boss or employees come knocking and sees the complete waste you have made of your task, you can point at your complete lack of social life and how much you have martyred yourself for your company as proof of your competence.…
>I do weight training after work every day. Dunno about that; you're supposed to have breaks so the muscle has time to repair itself unless you're just not pushing.
Not if you're intermediate or advanced and go on split routines.