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Agree with this. If founder cannot make work this without loosing sleep and enough rest. 1. Can they take sound decisions? Is there any datapoint on this. i.e.

Agree with this. If founder cannot make work this without loosing sleep and enough rest. 1. Can they take sound decisions? Is there any datapoint on this. i.e. List of companies gone south due to this specific type of working 2. How will they build the team with this kind of culture? 3. If they value these for themselves would they value it for employees / customers?

paki123 10y ago
This is a really stupid question, but all info about startups and making it in any field seems to be muddled with all this grinding bullshit, but is there any way to really succeed at any moonshot dream like a successful startup or business or athletics without "grinding" and sacrificing the now for the future? Are there examples, of hopefully non wunderkid geniuses, who succeeded by just clocking in and giving it their all? Without the help of adderall, microdosing, or any other "nootropic"?
willholloway 10y ago
It's not about short-term masochism, it's about focus. The human brain is non-scalable neural network.It only has so much bandwidth. The things that create/capture enough value to make big money are almost always non-trivial/hard. Market forces are the reason for that. There is a lot of competition by smart, driven people for the relatively scarce economically viable applications of technology within current market conditions. And resources will be scarce, help will be scarce, an unending line of people will either want what you have secured or want to destory you via regulation or lawsuits. Your employees will definitely not care as much as you do, and can get disgruntled and cause bad trouble. It's really best to move through the business world thinking everyone is out to get you. Only the liability paranoid survive. So for those reasons and more, if you focus on more than health + your business, you are likely to get eaten by someone else who isn't spreading his or her focus as much.
- iamacynic 10y ago
  > It's really best to move through the business world thinking everyone is out to get you i agree, but a more useful way of thinking is that everyone is looking out for themselves, and can be expected to act exactly in that manner. you getting got is usually a side effect of someone else getting theirs through unethical means.

paki123 10y ago

This is a really stupid question, but all info about startups and making it in any field seems to be muddled with all this grinding bullshit, but is there any way to really succeed at any moonshot dream like a successful startup or business or athletics without "grinding" and sacrificing the now for the future? Are there examples, of hopefully non wunderkid geniuses, who succeeded by just clocking in and giving it their all? Without the help of adderall, microdosing, or any other "nootropic"?

willholloway 10y ago

It's not about short-term masochism, it's about focus. The human brain is non-scalable neural network.It only has so much bandwidth. The things that create/capture enough value to make big money are almost always non-trivial/hard. Market forces are the reason for that. There is a lot of competition by smart, driven people for the relatively scarce economically viable applications of technology within current market conditions. And resources will be scarce, help will be scarce, an unending line of people will either want what you have secured or want to destory you via regulation or lawsuits. Your employees will definitely not care as much as you do, and can get disgruntled and cause bad trouble. It's really best to move through the business world thinking everyone is out to get you. Only the liability paranoid survive. So for those reasons and more, if you focus on more than health + your business, you are likely to get eaten by someone else who isn't spreading his or her focus as much.

iamacynic 10y ago
> It's really best to move through the business world thinking everyone is out to get you i agree, but a more useful way of thinking is that everyone is looking out for themselves, and can be expected to act exactly in that manner. you getting got is usually a side effect of someone else getting theirs through unethical means.