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Personally I would spend all this excess emotional energy and put it into either your startup, or a relationship with a significant other. Or exercise. Sure,

Personally I would spend all this excess emotional energy and put it into either your startup, or a relationship with a significant other. Or exercise. Sure, there are plenty of stories about people who were desperate and became successes. You never hear about the hundreds of thousands of people who were desperate and became abject failures. There are also people who are successful who were born with silver spoons in their mouths. So I would not make any type of correlation between some extreme emotional state and being successful. If anything, it might make you squirrely and detract from your obligations at your startup.

vu0tran 14y ago
Yeah, you may be right. I wrote up the blog post and considered withdrawing it before anyone read it but it somehow managed to get its way here anyways because my co-founder thought it'd be funny to post. If it cuts into my ability to work at my startup, I'll stop immediately as that's my #1 priority. You'll be surprised though that even putting in 60 hrs a week into a startup, exercising and having a significant other, if you work efficiently you still have time left. (168 hrs in a week - 60 - 8 hrs a day for sleep = 62 free hrs left. 1 hr a day for exercising and 2 hrs a day for an SO leaves 41 hrs left. ) But really though, I don't know. This might turn into a lesson about how distracting side projects can be while running a startup. Or how to optimize your time more efficiently. Or even how to run a bad experiment. If this turns out to be a really bad idea, I'll learn from it, share it with you guys and move on. Thanks for watching out for me though. I appreciate your concern.
- ph0rque 14y ago
  Hopefully your SO knows that they only have 2 hours per day of your time...
  - Xcelerate 14y ago
    Huh, it took me a while to realize you meant "significant other". I was thinking "stack overflow" but that didn't fit the context well...
    - markyc 14y ago
      ahhaahahaa! man.. we're such geeks
      - afaict 14y ago
        Suggestion: combine with another little experiment… http://www.bulletproofexec.com/bulletproof-sex/ http://www.bulletproofexec.com/bulletproof-sex/ Should make your desperation (& success) even better.
  - Evbn 14y ago
    Plus sleeping time, how is that bad?
- rizzom5000 14y ago
  Might want to check that math: mine is 168 - 60 - (7x8) = 52 hours left. And 52 - 7 - 14 = 31. Between eating, shopping, commuting and other errands, that leaves me about an hour (two if I'm lucky) a day to catch up on reading/'other research' etc. In any case, your post is really focused on 'good ideas', which is all well and good if you have one -- but had you taken that stats class in college, I think you'd find a preponderance of evidence to support the notion that successful execution of the the idea is a more important factor than having the idea. Neither Pinterest nor AirBnB are unique or exciting ideas - and where the rubber meets the road, it's also extremely unlikely that either are worth anywhere near 1B. Have you seen the Facebook/Zynga/etc. stock prices lately?

vu0tran 14y ago

Yeah, you may be right. I wrote up the blog post and considered withdrawing it before anyone read it but it somehow managed to get its way here anyways because my co-founder thought it'd be funny to post. If it cuts into my ability to work at my startup, I'll stop immediately as that's my #1 priority. You'll be surprised though that even putting in 60 hrs a week into a startup, exercising and having a significant other, if you work efficiently you still have time left. (168 hrs in a week - 60 - 8 hrs a day for sleep = 62 free hrs left. 1 hr a day for exercising and 2 hrs a day for an SO leaves 41 hrs left. ) But really though, I don't know. This might turn into a lesson about how distracting side projects can be while running a startup. Or how to optimize your time more efficiently. Or even how to run a bad experiment. If this turns out to be a really bad idea, I'll learn from it, share it with you guys and move on. Thanks for watching out for me though. I appreciate your concern.

ph0rque 14y ago
Hopefully your SO knows that they only have 2 hours per day of your time...
- Xcelerate 14y ago
  Huh, it took me a while to realize you meant "significant other". I was thinking "stack overflow" but that didn't fit the context well...
  - markyc 14y ago
    ahhaahahaa! man.. we're such geeks
    - afaict 14y ago
      Suggestion: combine with another little experiment… http://www.bulletproofexec.com/bulletproof-sex/ http://www.bulletproofexec.com/bulletproof-sex/ Should make your desperation (& success) even better.
- Evbn 14y ago
  Plus sleeping time, how is that bad?
rizzom5000 14y ago
Might want to check that math: mine is 168 - 60 - (7x8) = 52 hours left. And 52 - 7 - 14 = 31. Between eating, shopping, commuting and other errands, that leaves me about an hour (two if I'm lucky) a day to catch up on reading/'other research' etc. In any case, your post is really focused on 'good ideas', which is all well and good if you have one -- but had you taken that stats class in college, I think you'd find a preponderance of evidence to support the notion that successful execution of the the idea is a more important factor than having the idea. Neither Pinterest nor AirBnB are unique or exciting ideas - and where the rubber meets the road, it's also extremely unlikely that either are worth anywhere near 1B. Have you seen the Facebook/Zynga/etc. stock prices lately?