All these companies could have been built with booze, sleep, and fun.
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AI Startup Founders Tout a Winning Formula–No Booze, No Sleep, No Fun
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#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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. Oh please. What a puritanical take. There is nothing wrong with the moderate consumption of alcohol - a glass of wine a week is hardly dependency.
Unfortunately, theres been enough recent papers that indicate alcohol is a carcinogen that causes various types of cancers (colorectal, breast, liver, mouth, voice box, throat and esophageal). And evidently even small amounts raise this carcinogenic risk. I'll still cook with red wine/meat sauces and white wine/seafood. But at least right now, am reconsidering any alcohol past 20%. Just look up alcohol cancer risk. T…
And yet it has also has a significant beneficial effect in the reduction the chance of developing cardiovascular disease.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28521683/
As in all things, informed moderation is the key.
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#43Don'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.
Well, in what other way could they justifify the compensation they ask for?
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#44I am sick to death of founder propaganda like this, none of them actually work this much. 'No Booze' i believe, all of them do psychedelics and designer drugs now anyways. I would love if it a single reporter asked the obvious question in all of this "If the AI is so good, how come you have to work this 20 hour monster days?" the AI is both a mega machine capable of doing every persons job and somehow this doesnt lead to reduced work hours or increased output for anyone? Im not buying it.
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#45I would add “no eating”, who has time for that when you have a founder video to make
Indeed. Eating is found to be a major cause of wasted billions of hour per day in the world. Can you imagine productivity growth if people just stop eating.
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#46Does that winning formula include shoveling money into a furnace and the inability to turn a profit?
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#47All these companies could have been built with booze, sleep, and fun.
I've seen Mad Men, those guys were pretty successful.
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#49No 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…
I quit alcohol completely maybe a year ago and it has been nice but I didn't get any sort of dramatic power-up that some people claim. I suspect a lot of the people who quit alcohol and talk about it loudly are those who had a pretty harmful relationship with it to start with. That's not everyone though.
I know a guy who quit alcohol and was amazed by his weight loss, I asked how much he was drinking and he said "normal amount, 5 or 6 a night"
Thats a lot! For most people quitting alcohol is not going to give that level of boost, even close to it.
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#50It's incredible that we're at a point where people here feel the need to argue – apparently in all seriousness – that sleep and fun are important. As if that was something not self-evident. And I mean intrinsically, of course, not just as a means to help produce more value for shareholders.
There were people on here the other day arguing earnestly that women should get jobs and pay for childcare because it would improve their contribution to GDP.
And arguing over whether or not businesses need to care for employees (while pretending that an argument for a corporate culture of collectivist genuine effective care was somehow an argument for businesses to operate how they already do).
People also quibble on here over what exactly is genocide and should we really be against it.