Was very hard to navigate COVID where the business was whiplashed in both directions for a couple years. Money went to opening clinics and staff… in hindsight there were smarter ways to grow the business.
There are 25 million ER visits a year for kids where the vast majority of those visits are not life-threatening and don’t require that level of care. An urgent care is 1/10 the cost of an ER and can create a better environment for the kid and family… so better care for 1/10th the cost.
For a fuller perspective on what my thoughts are on geek macho bullshit, you might care to read: http://bubs.co/if-you-ever-feel-alone-in-this (I agree that there is too much of it.)
And I should know better than to post any kind of general analogy as a way to illustrate a story here on HN with a bunch of smart people who'll punch holes in the technical impracticalities of such analogy... but yes, I took a negative word of "tired" and bent it to tell a story. Rest is important. Operating at 50% isn't good for the long haul.
I wasn't trying to suggest that being tired in a way that affects ongoing abilities to perform is a good thing. I just wanted to point out that if you just pop your head in to take a measurement of something, without the context of everything else going on, then that measurement might be off... ie, the investor seeing me as tired, without knowing it was because of the intensely productive and long week I had just come out of.
I clicked through and realized I had read that already and liked it quite a bit, I just read it again and I still do.
I was aware of my comment being close to one of those too typical "here's what's wrong with this post" comments, but you hit on two things that aggravate me the most in our community and I'm a bit of a pusher of the whole "work smarter, work less, get more done" line of thinking in general.
"the investor seeing me as tired, without knowing it was because of the intensely productive and long week I had just come out of"
That's why I gave you the benefit of the doubt, I figured this was part of your meaning and why you put the sports analogy in there. I'm with you 100% here, but when you drifted towards the glorification of long hours and threw in a "changing the world" (I hate this delusion with a passion, but you should obviously get a pass because with Hands.org you are one of the very few actually trying to do good) I got a bit snarky.
Wait wait... two people seemed to disagree on the internet and then after a few traded messages they end up in agreement and a better understanding of each other... we might have just broken the internet. :)
Oh, yeah. It took me a while to process what they said, because I did put myself in their shoes... Am I really tired looking? Does my team think that? Am I putting off a negative tired vibe, or an excited about the hard work vibe, etc.
At the end of the day, and having talked to my team and family, I decided they just took a thin slice of experience and used it to make it into a negative... perhaps instead of being adult enough to say the real reason they didn't believe in me, the business, etc.
