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Re: Elizabeth Holmes' Daily Schedule

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Post by AtlasBarfed »

This is garden variety type A OCD CEO stuff. Your typical CEO, male or female or whatever, is going to not be that different than this.

Now, people are calling this also ironic given the charlatan nature of her career and the naked narcissism it hides.

Back to the point about this being typical executive crap: what do you think your typical exec or exec wannabe thinks? It's all about the (narcissistic) goals, and anything else is just a bridge or a barrier to them. Basically every CEO is a showman charlatan and a narcissist.

It makes all the Elon hate so funny. People, he's actually par far on the honest/good side of the entire CEO psycho personality statistical distribution. Zuck is probably dead middle. Now try parsing the mindset of the petroleum execs, tobacco execs, mining companies, etc.

Capitalism is a genetic engineering framework for producing more and more refined social psychopaths. It doesn't reward "good". It doesn't reward "sharing".

Re: Elizabeth Holmes' Daily Schedule

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Post by gampleman »

14 wrote: post #16

Step one prey. Very holy of her. Step two enter the world and lie to investors possibly sending some people into financial ruin destroying their lives. The lack of morals but claiming to prey to god just blows me away. Better ask for forgiveness.

Hmm not sure if the misspelling here is intentional to make a point…

Re: Elizabeth Holmes' Daily Schedule

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Post by bserge »

killingtime74 wrote: post #10
tylermauthe wrote: post #2

Legitimate question: why do people find this interesting and/or why is it relevant to the trial?

Have you never wondered how a genius/suspected scammer spends their day? Are they just like us? Like the videos of Hitler practicing his speeches

Of course they're "just like us". Just much more open to manipulating others into doing their bidding.

Lots (most/all?) of people have this trait, but few seem to be able to use it to its full extent.

I, for example, heavily prefer to do everything myself and don't bother anyone unless I have something to offer. Terrible way to live btw.

I do sometimes think how great it would be to have other people do my bidding and make me rich.

The reality that everyone has their own mind is what's off-putting, I would not force or manipulate anyone, I'd rather have robots do all the work instead. This seems to be a common mentality among "tech inclined" people.

Re: Elizabeth Holmes' Daily Schedule

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Post by winter_squirrel »

siva7 wrote: post #4

I doubt this was her practiced schedule. More of like an sketch for her envisioned perfect day. Do you really believe people practice such schedules?

Is it really that hard to believe someone would do it somewhat regularly? I certainly don't do it every day, but more often then not I'll do the same kind of things in the morning (wake up around 4 - 4:30am, meditate, exercise, shower / clean, ...). It's just basic habits

The part after the schedule is weird for sure, but the schedule itself sounds fine.

Re: Elizabeth Holmes' Daily Schedule

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Post by adventured »

siva7 wrote: post #4

I doubt this was her practiced schedule. More of like an sketch for her envisioned perfect day. Do you really believe people practice such schedules?

She seems to be sociopathic, it wouldn't be very surprising if she practiced variations of a schedule like this with the intent of molding herself into an image/fantasy of success, as she was appraently trying to do with quasi copying Jobs. It is certainly unlikely she was able to rigidly maintain a daily schedule like that.

Re: Elizabeth Holmes' Daily Schedule

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Post by bserge »

AtlasBarfed wrote: post #21

This is garden variety type A OCD CEO stuff. Your typical CEO, male or female or whatever, is going to not be that different than this. Now, people are calling this also ironic given the charlatan nature of her career and the naked narcissism it hides. Back to the point about this being typical executive crap: what do you think your typical exec or exec wannabe thinks? It's all about the (narcissistic) goals, and any…

Yeah, I'd say the real psychos don't share their thoughts. If you're in a position of power, that's as dumb an idea as it gets. You just do what you want, out of sight, out of mind of the masses.

Re: Elizabeth Holmes' Daily Schedule

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Post by [deleted] »

AtlasBarfed wrote: post #21

This is garden variety type A OCD CEO stuff. Your typical CEO, male or female or whatever, is going to not be that different than this. Now, people are calling this also ironic given the charlatan nature of her career and the naked narcissism it hides. Back to the point about this being typical executive crap: what do you think your typical exec or exec wannabe thinks? It's all about the (narcissistic) goals, and any…

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Re: Elizabeth Holmes' Daily Schedule

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Post by fragmede »

adventured wrote: post #27
siva7 wrote: post #4

I doubt this was her practiced schedule. More of like an sketch for her envisioned perfect day. Do you really believe people practice such schedules?

She seems to be sociopathic, it wouldn't be very surprising if she practiced variations of a schedule like this with the intent of molding herself into an image/fantasy of success, as she was appraently trying to do with quasi copying Jobs. It is certainly unlikely she was able to rigidly maintain a daily schedule like that.

Executives, whether they're sociopaths or not, don't have to hold that schedule all on their own. They have executive assistants and personal assistants (not always different people) to help them with that. I dunno, if I had someone who's job it was to help keep me on that schedule, I think I'd have better luck than the plebes do, don't you?
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