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Ok but I don’t think it had anything to do with being burnt out at any point either due to founder stress. He had always been into the rave scene. His entire i
by tempsy 6y ago
Ok but I don’t think it had anything to do with being burnt out at any point either due to founder stress.
He had always been into the rave scene. His entire instagram page was like one big love letter to Burning Man. He had a new tour titled the “Rabbit Hole.” I think clearly there was some interest on his part with psychedelics or dissociatives that went too far, and made worse by surrounding himself with people too afraid to confront him about it.
Perhaps his story his relatable from afar but to paint this as something to do with “getting over burn out from overwork” is not what I’m seeing when I read this piece.
- floatingatoll 6y agoI do not intend to paint Hsieh's story as "overwork led to burnout led to self-destruction". I am absolutely using the parallels I perceive to tell a different story that I hope will help at least one other avoid what I've seen happen to so many.
- j4yav 6y agoI think that leading with this is what's causing the confusion of what your intent was: > Each exhibited the same pattern of awesome-burnout-intoxicate-destruction as Hsieh is described as having here
- floatingatoll 6y agoMakes sense, but there’s little I can do about it now.