As someone who was early stage at a startup, I appreciate the reminder to stop and smell the roses. As someone who's been grinding for four years now, it's easy to forget how far you've come.
Why Startup Founders are Always Unhappy
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Re: Why Startup Founders are Always Unhappy
#22I always never use the words 'always' and 'never'. They are always never true.
Re: Why Startup Founders are Always Unhappy
#23pretty sure it's because they're all mentally ill, delusional, narcissistic egomaniacs with technology addictions and nothing meaningful to live for besides Y Combinator
Up until the final clause of that sentence I didn't have a problem with it (well as a blanket statement it is pretty snarky but a touch of monomania combined with massive self belief isn't necessarily a bad thing when running a startup). All of that can work for you in the right environment.
Re: Why Startup Founders are Always Unhappy
#24I don't think unhappy is the right word (and even the post doesn't claim the always part) but the first line of Derman's book springs to mind as a partial explanation.
"Ambition is a state of permanent dissatisfaction with the present - Emanuel Derman"
Re: Why Startup Founders are Always Unhappy
#25If there is one thing I dislike more than self-help, it's self-help based on anecdotal evidence from one person with no background in psychology. Even more so when the title of a post states an extreme personal hypothesis as if it were a fact obvious to everyone. If you want to know more about happiness from a scientific point of view, read or listen to experts like Daniel Kahneman. For example: http://www.ted.com/ta…
Yup, this is a good example of pseudoscience --> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoscience