I've never had a hangover, much to the irritation of others, what I do consistently get is a mildly bad mood that lasts about half the following day.

You're either young or lucky. Or both.

ÜFÜ (über Fünfzig)/50+ here, walking 82kg at 181cm. Still don't know what a hangover is, or how exactly it feels. Though I rarely drink alcoholic stuff. What I do know is the 'emergency dumping' by vomiting it out when I had too much, though that happened only about 4 to 5 times in my life. Still, even when that happened, woke up, feeling normal.

I'm 37, so not that young. I'll take lucky though.

I think it's literally just that they pay well

"I would simply protect myself by not spending cash on things that are scams"

Even professional investors have a hard time telling scams apart from legit operations. Just look at the Madoff scandal.

And when even the professionals fail to see scams, how is the general public supposed to do so?

Bernie Madoff's victims were mostly high net worth individuals (dumb money), not professional investors. While professional investors do occasionally get scammed that's much less common.

The list of Madoff investors is mostly institutions.

And sadly a lot of charities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_investors_in_Bernard_L...

Apparently I didn't make it clear enough that I wholeheartedly agree

I would actually expect the opposite - that FSD gets banned in the short term because mistakes are a. inevitable and b. super, super dangerous.

I think self driving cars only become safe when every vehicle is capable of self driving, and infrastructure is adapted accordingly.

happy to be proven wrong though!

I think you're rationalising a bad decision, one that weakens your position, and sadly it might be difficult to undo now, so you're even more likely to rationalise this to yourself.

If the problem was motivation try and find out why you were lacking it, I suspect the answer was not "I'm too gosh darn rich"

Eh. People forget they can disagree without putting you down.

He has the funds for 2 years and isn’t breaking his own legs.

A better analogy would be like Bruce Wayne giving up everything for 2 years to focus in the mountains his ninja skills.

OP, do your thing!

Hmm, over two years you're putting in an additional $172k plus all of the time and effort cofounding a startup entails, plus the opportunity cost of doing a startup vs collecting regular tech company wages working a 9-5. Is your investment properly acknowledged in terms of equity?

You're also sending a signal to your investors that your time is not worth much, and a signal to your employees that they can also expect scant wages and personal sacrifices.

It sounds like a bad deal, one I personally would not agree to, let alone writing about it publicly.

It is quite likely that after let's say 6 months of gruelling work you will start to burn out, start to feel undervalued, become difficult to work with and end up getting fired as a result. If things are this tight you should probably raise more money instead.

At least with WhatsApp you do have the contact's phone number, so you can reach them via SMS if necessary.

Do you have to open WhatsApp and connect to the servers to access the number? (Honest question here, I've never used it)

You have to open the app, but you can see phone numbers in airplane mode.

This article could have been written 10, 20 or 30 years ago with only the slightest of adjustments. We work in an industry with the constant need to learn new things and adapt to new ways of working, this will never change.

Thank you for speaking up for what is right.

Probably avoid calling people minions if you can. Do you want to come across as someone who manages unimportant simpletons, or do you want to be perceived as someone who manages smart and interesting people? Build up those below you, don't knock them down - everyone wins.

I found it refreshingly honest. Most of us aren't landing people on Mars or working on a cure for cancer here. Most of us are, infact, relatively unimportant (including the guy managing minions.)

The people who speak like this in my experience typically use that kind of terminology to highlight their own superiority, not realising that it has the opposite effect.

I condensed "people who see me as their boss and/or mentor and/or intermediator with the company" into the humorous and highly inaccurate "minions".

Feel free to continue to evaluate my performance on the basis of my word-choice here rather than the actual management process I was describing.

I have no idea about your performance, I'm sure you're a great manager. I only noted your word choice because I've seen people talking this way about their reports and it doesn't reflect well on them.

Have you seen people talking about themselves like that? Because that's how "minion" is frequently used humorously, and I was assuming that OP was channeling that.