F*** You Startup World

I mean, 'no one can read a book a week' - what? Of course you can, you just have to enjoy reading enough it's a priority, and so you choose to dedicate the time to it. When a book comes out I like, I'll spend an evening reading it cover to cover, because I hate reading in little chunks. I don't do that every week, because I have other hobbies and things to do, but the idea it's impossible is silly.

No one makes you anything, you choose whether or not you buy into it. Sounds to me like the anger is displayed by the author is directed at themselves for having to chomped down on the bullshit hook, line, and sinker. At least I hope so, or that is a lot of misdirected anger.

You're staring at your phone all day because everyone else does, and you have a Fear of Missing Out? That's on you, dude. Compulsively checking web sites listed in the article? And the blame for that goes to...you! Taking less vacation because your company has an unlimited vacation policy? Hmm, who to blame for that...give me a minute. Spending more time in front of the Macbook than with your kids? Yeah, you see where I'm going with this.

Not that I disagree with the message, but that message is really just "lots of cargo-culting and general bullshit in The Valley", and that message could be just as true if you swapped out "The Valley" with a lot of things (music and sports are just two that immediately spring to mind). Welcome to the human world, I guess, where we're simultaneously trying to pull one over on someone else while trying to look smarter than we really are.

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