Clever, self-involved, no inner-editor. I find myself concurring with their view despite a writing style that does nothing for the credibility of the author.
The title format "What We Talk About When We Talk About X," which today perhaps would be called a meme started with a famous short story by Raymond Carver, part of his short story collection published in 1981 with the same title (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_We_Talk_About_When_We_Tal...). It's a great story, strongly recommend it.
This format is now very widely used in blogs and other pieces, almost to the point of being overdone. TIL from (https://lithub.com/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-thi...) that Murakami "asked Tess Gallagher, Carver’s widow, for permission to use the title form." for his memoir published in 2009. He's probably an important factor in the resurgence of the format.
Also worth mentioning that the title was made up by Carver's editor Gordon Lish, who significantly altered the story (originally called Beginners). Lish made relatively extensive changes to many of Carver's stories, and is widely accepted as having improved them, though not everyone agrees.
Great point! Lish was a tight controller who was universally liked, to say the least. He’s generally insufferable (judge for yourself don’t this PM interview: https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6423/the-art-of-ed....) A sexier version of Maxwell Perkins with better hair, perhaps? Yet he did teach writing and edited well.
Way, way past the point of being overdone! And I'm sure most of the people who keep overdoing it are referencing the Murakami book, rather than the great Carver short story.
Despite having a seed round when I left, which definitely weighted the decision, I pay a very little salary to myself, basically covering health insurance and a bit more, so I burn my savings.
I made sure to have around 2 years of savings (not counting my little salary), so if in 10 months the picture is too bad, I can simply get a new job.
Now, what really made the difference in my decision is:
- You’re the average of the 5 people you hang out the most. My co-founders are great people with a great tracking record and this makes a huge difference
- Learnings. You won’t learn nearly as much about building a business if you continue taking it as a side gig
- we have already a product already generating some revenue. Not huge, but we believe in a great potential
- as I mentioned, the seed round of course changes the perspective
- “if I wouldn’t earn as much, would I stay at my job?”, every time I would think about this, the answer was a big NO! I really didn’t want to live this miserable day to day because of a pay check
- lastly, which is very personal, every time I’d think of memories of my childhood and the “rich kids” friend of mine, none of them had parents that were employees. Even now, every “rich person” I know are entrepreneurs. Sure… the odds are low, but I rather take the risk and live the life I want
Good point, but before we get into that, let me talk about my grandmother for a moment. She was a great cook, eager to learning new recipes, especially with potatoes. Potato is a great plant, rich in essential vitamins, easy to cook, very healthy...
For giggles I asked ChatGPT to write a typical SEO optimized recipe. It picked cookies and started with:
"Ah, the sweet aroma of freshly baked cookies! It always takes me back to my grandmother's cozy kitchen, where the warmth wasn't just from the oven, but also from the love and laughter we shared."
It's always impressive (almost scary) how well ChatGPT manages to work with these types of prompts.
The problem is that is not one to one. And isolating diet is very hard.
Muslin countries don’t do alcohol, but they smoke a lot more than in comparison to some other countries.
As well as different general diet behaviours.
So as much as your idea has some logic, it is still very hard to get the right picture.
And now if we all are being honest, most of those studies are done with intention of understanding how much one can drink with much harm. So comparing a group of people who doesn’t drink at all with one that drink is not the correct data points.
We all know that alcohol is bad. If people want to be healthy they can simply not drink.
We don’t do studies to understand “how many cigarettes a day is good for your health” we simple know the best amount is zero. But alcohol is deep into our society habits
