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At the end of the article, Bourdain admits he succeeded primarily due to luck, and that "luck is not a business model". I suspect many here have heard the more
by bobf 16y ago
At the end of the article, Bourdain admits he succeeded primarily due to luck, and that "luck is not a business model". I suspect many here have heard the more famously quoted "hope is not a business model", which is also true. Perhaps less famous, but more dangerous to entrepreneurs: "passion is also not a business model".
Interestingly, although each of those is certainly not a business model, all of them are ultimately required for a startup to reach a [VC|FU-money] level of success.
- mechanical_fish 16y agoYou need to read that final sentence in context. It is part of a very carefully written passage in which Bourdain attempts to convey the following message: Do not get addicted to drugs. You will fuck up your life. to the audience that most needs to hear it without coming off as judgmental, or holier-than-thou, or hopelessly clueless and naive, or unaware of his own good fortune, and without angering the people -- many of whom he probably counts as friends -- for whom self-medicating with drugs and booze is the least fucked-up of a number of fucked-up alternatives. My paraphrase accomplishes none of these things, which is why Bourdain is Bourdain and I'm just a drive-by commenter on HN who cooks only as a hobby.