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I was previously at a place in my life where I compulsively did endurance exercise (including 3 marathons) to keep myself fatigued and numb my feelings. It was not too different to how some people smoke weed or drink, except that everyone in my life thought it was great and healthy. I spent a long time not making some very hard but positive life choices, and now my stomach lining is shot from pounding NSAIDs to keep exercising through joint pain.

I'm not sure why this was downvoted, Card has openly advocated for gay people to be jailed and fought against marriage equality. A lot of his fiction work also has unflattering depictions of gay characters and relationships.

I had a smaller YC company pitch me something like this as an option for my stock comp - an RSA (restricted stock agreement, or "founder's stock"), where I put up all the cash up front, paid a big income tax bill in the first year, but then upside was all capital gains. I would technically own the stock but I had to sell it back for nothing if I left before it vested.

Turned out I left very early because the company wasn't doing great, in the current climate I think they're probably default-dead. All that cash is just gone.