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AI Startup Founders Tout a Winning Formula–No Booze, No Sleep, No Fun

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Re: AI Startup Founders Tout a Winning Formula–No Booze, No Sleep, No Fun

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No Booze is the only item on this list that is helpful (as someone who has been the personal coach to Unicorn Founders over the last 20+ years, currently with a waitlist). For certain, the elimination of all alcohol will help everyone achieve more in life. If this triggers you, consider you may have a drug problem. No Sleep kills your energy and productivity. You need proper sleep to be your best. Could you imagine a…

You sound like a grifter.

Re: AI Startup Founders Tout a Winning Formula–No Booze, No Sleep, No Fun

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Don't take your health and lifestyle advice from start-up founders, episode 36. Elizabeth Holmes writes the same kind of nonsense. It's just an attempt to pass themselves off as exceptional beings who owe their success solely to their talent and iron discipline. I don't know anyone who can keep going in the long term by neglecting their sleep and their physical and mental health.

Gotta promote bootstrapping somehow, because you just know most of these folks won’t see one thin dime from their equity, and those that do will be worshipped as visionaries while conveniently ignoring the piled masses of unsuccessful bodies behind them.

Re: AI Startup Founders Tout a Winning Formula–No Booze, No Sleep, No Fun

#34

Don't take your health and lifestyle advice from start-up founders, episode 36. Elizabeth Holmes writes the same kind of nonsense. It's just an attempt to pass themselves off as exceptional beings who owe their success solely to their talent and iron discipline. I don't know anyone who can keep going in the long term by neglecting their sleep and their physical and mental health.

Right? Like if one's identity is found in you work and one doesn't step back there's a good chance they think amphetamines are a good thing one should take to stay awake and work more.

Re: AI Startup Founders Tout a Winning Formula–No Booze, No Sleep, No Fun

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No Booze is the only item on this list that is helpful (as someone who has been the personal coach to Unicorn Founders over the last 20+ years, currently with a waitlist). For certain, the elimination of all alcohol will help everyone achieve more in life. If this triggers you, consider you may have a drug problem. No Sleep kills your energy and productivity. You need proper sleep to be your best. Could you imagine a…

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