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Perhaps true but medieval life expectancy was not particularly great.

Yes, agreed. I think in this industry we ought to sometimes reflect on how hard we expect everyone to work, and how hard we push people who may not always be in situations where they should be pushing.

I'm generally a believer that hard work is good and that startups are worth investing considerable time and energy into, and I love my career. But working in this industry has certainly been hard on my health, despite ALL my other choices being very "healthy." Leaders have pushed me to ignore my body in order to produce results many times, over prolonged periods of time.

If you don't mind, I won't get into the specific type of cancer here, I'm particularly protective of my ability to remain psychologically positive about it and I don't want to encounter HN-style analysis of my specific type.

I addressed this in the comment below and sure, stress comes from lifestyle. By lifestyle I'm referring more directly to diet, choosing not to smoke/do drugs, exercise, etc. I was a lifelong athlete, non smoker, healthy eater.

You can do a great deal. I have changed my life completely. We underestimate our power over our circumstances.

No, I am talking about the high-stress job and abusive partner kind of stress.

Sure, it can be. But that's about as disempowering a thought as you can have if you need to try to live life as a cancer survivor. If you have any inkling that something may have contributed to its cause then you potentially have agency to help prevent it from recurring.

I went thru very aggressive cancer treatment a few years ago (am a woman in my late thirties) for a type that was def not lifestyle caused nor hereditary. So far so good. I have received great care but no one has given me so much as a hypothesis as to what caused it. The type I had is rising amongst women under 50.

If I had to hypothesize, stress and trauma are large contributors. I don't think by any means that previous generations (women in particular) had it 'easier,' but I think the nature and persistence of low-grade psychological stress we carry now is unique. And our support systems are worse.

Sometimes it can be as simple as asking yourself, "what if this were fun?" What would have to happen?

Well, I'd have to have a different attitude and find something I enjoy about it, for starters. Listening to an extremely engaging podcast or audiobook while I do chores, for example, helps a lot. Or challenging myself to find the humor in a situation.

But those are coping mechanisms for dealing with necessary but annoying tasks. Work related quests require a different approach -- I guess my first question of something feels like a miserable grind is, "is this really the thing I want to be doing with my life?" Sometimes no amount of reframing a job will make it tolerable if it's just not your thing.

beautifully said

Cleaning isn't the issue, and I'm speaking for the women I know here but it generally is more about parenting load than household chores.

Feminism is also very difficult to characterize broadly: first and second wave feminism was much more about seeking equality (before the law, in eligibility for education/jobs, in terms of pay for the same work, the right to have a credit card, an equal right to initiate divorce, etc.)

Later waves of feminism do often view men differently and perhaps more antagonistically. I and most women I know don't identify with those. But it's easy to conflate the two and ascribe malicious intent to men toward women that isn't there.

I understand the market forces at play but this is such a travesty

This doesn't address your desire for discussion but I just want to share that I have been loving https://radiooooo.app/ for music discovery, it may scratch an itch you're looking for.

Age is just a number. Unless you're a professional athlete, particularly from now on your mentality will have a bigger impact on what happens in life than your actual age ever will.

Ageing is a privilege denied to many. Don't waste a single second of precious life force worrying about it.

Treat your body like the temple it is. Your choices will start making more and more of a difference.

Now's a great time to leave that shitty job or relationship. It'll be harder to in a few years. You already know the decision you need to make.

Lots of women resent modern feminism to some degree for this very reason. (I am a woman, and have many close female friends who discuss this).

Each and every one of us has never had an option not to have a Big Career. At a minimum, we've always had to fend for ourselves financially, and even in solid long term relationships/marriages with successful men, our income is both needed and expected.

Meanwhile, the caregiving / household maintenance expectations placed on your average Western woman haven't changed, she just has to do them on top of her day job now.

There's a lot of lecturing from "trad" guys online who think everyone should have stay at home wives and lots of kids, but even women who want this type of partnership often can't find men who are willing and able to actually financially support such an arrangement. Every woman I know has spent her whole 20s and 30s seeking wholesome, long term relationships with men who want marriage and kids, at least in an equal and respectful two income home, but they are pretty hard to find. If we can't find a guy in time or we get unlucky (bad breakup/divorce), we're blamed for being "too career oriented" to procreate. No one asks why so few men are serious about marrying us, though. I don't know any women who actually chose their career over having kids, but I do know plenty who figured, 'well, if I have to fend for myself while I look for a guy, I may as well do my best to take care of myself financially.'

I know it's hard for men too. But I don't think men realize the heavy implications that the latest waves of feminism have had in terms of what's expected of the modern young woman. And something has broken between the sexes that seems to make it harder than ever to form stable, loving families.

I'm definitely not comparing people working on a SaaS app to emergency docs and nurses, but this dynamic happens a lot in startups and it's something to watch as a manager.

People go to the most effective people with their problems and high-stakes projects. The reward for good work is more work.

Too few people these days understand the delicious sensation you get when coming round a bend, dropping the clutch, shifting gears, and feeling the whoosh of power that results from a mechanical interaction between your body and a machine.

I love driving my manual too and would like to beg you to keep buying them -- the few of us that still appreciate them are the only shred of remaining market

A helpful framing I once got from a nutritionist: "processed" food exists on a spectrum. Could you make it at home, or at least conceive of how to make it at home? (i.e. a can of soup, a baked cracker); or would it require a lab and advanced chemistry?

I agree with much of what you say, but I'm not sure the dystopian conclusion is the main one I'd draw.

Improving your ability to connect with and enjoy/learn from people all around the world is one of the main value props of the internet, and tech like this just deepens that potential. Will some people take this to an unhealthy degree that pulls them too far out of reality? Yes. But others will use it to level up their abilities, enrich their lives, create beautiful things, and reduce loneliness.

as a hilarious person i can confirm this is true

Most modern SUVs are 'underpowered' too. They take the same lame engine that goes in a non-sport family sedan and drop it in a larger, heavier car. If you want performance, you usually buy a specific type of car.

A lot of comments here from people who think this is "obvious" but have probably never been personally responsible for monetizing and scaling a product. If you run referral programs you will often drive meaningful incremental revenue, and founders/investors etc. will push for more.

Actually scaling a product successfully requires a lot of testing/pricing/segmentation. Crucially, advertising is the most expensive way to acquire a new user. If every high quality user refers >1 other net new high quality user, you cut your CAC in half. Well-run referral programs for the right type of product can be lucrative, but countering the narrative that every product needs to have one is probably a good thing.

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Yes but low-hanging fruit that can deliver 1000X returns on capital over a 5-10 year time horizon -- that's something different.

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and frankly the more poorly informed western elites try to protest and prevent extraction and distribution of western (i.e. Canada, USA) oil and gas, the more dependent we will all be on oil from places like Saudi and Russia.

people really don't get it.

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the need for MCAS in the first place is a major design flaw and results in additional failure modes that other aircraft do not have. the "fix" was to prioritize human inputs over MCAS, making these planes more vulnerable to human error. still worth avoiding IMHO.

Perhaps not canary in the coal mine so much as it's reflective of many startups being overvalued with overhyped revenue projections at the Series A/B stage a couple years back.

Add to that weird regulatory stuff dampening acquisition prospects, high interest rate environment, and the ability to cheaply accomplish more and more with AI, and I think we'll see meaningful changes to the nature of venture funding and expectations over the next couple years. Will also mean down rounds and cutbacks for companies that don't weather this stuff well.

I still do my best to avoid flying on the MAX 8. V low confidence in Boeing after that debacle. They introduced MCAS to compensate for the fact that they didn't want to spend on redesigning an aerodynamically stable plane that could accommodate the new, larger engines.

When MCAS led to crashes, they dialled it back, increasing the power of the pilot relative to the computer. That's not a solve. In either case, the aircraft has an additional point of failure that properly designed aeroplanes do not have.

The 788 is great but the 787 MAX, not so much.

Needless to say this new story does not inspire further confidence.

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