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Since he seems to be married (according to Wikipedia), this strikes me as a very uncharitable reading. (It would also be uncharitable if he wasn't married though)

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Uncharitable, yes, but doesn't that item strike you as weirdly out of place?

I mean, even in this list.

I think it's the "highly effective people are not doing this well" comment that strikes us. Nobody is doing this well, but his emphasis on top performers makes it seem like "we need to solve this problem for them so they can go back to being highly effective"

Good point.

To my mind, this list is very much like the "how to make more entrepreneurs (in the VC sense) more successful" articles that show up often.

We may want to solve this problem so they can breed and have highly effective children.

ahh, but for that we need to go back to a world where highly effective people married people who were content to bring up children and not be highly effective themselves. Having children is a huge barrier to being highly effective, unless you can offload all the caring duties onto someone else ;)

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