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I am not committed to winning. That's a good thing. I'm committed to living a decent life.
“Reid Hoffman has a reality check for entrepreneurs: if you’re serious about starting a company, you should say goodbye to binge-watching your favorite Netflix show after dinner or sleeping in on the weekends—you need to be on the work grind all hours of the day.”
You’re clearly not committed to reading articles either. “It’s a headline, it must be about me. Let me make sure I share my opinion without reading the article!”
Opinions based on false perceptions when the truth is 20seconds of discovery away, is just willful and lazy ignorance. Thats not just a red flag, thats also red hat behavior. You can do better than that if you want to.
Exactly. Thanks for putting it so clearly.
Title bait. He said that about entrepreneurship and starting a business, which I can understand as it is very unlikely that you work as an "standard" employee.
The worst people on Earth are the ones who are constantly obsessing about "winning" every situation, so that makes perfect sense to me.
Legit, I think this is why board games are a great activity when getting to know new people. Most people don't want to play with someone ultra competitive, who'll either gloat when they win, or flip the board when they lose. If someone's willing to behave that way over a game, imagine how they'd be over something that's actually important.
Achieving a healthy work-life-balance IS winning. That's what the mindless drones don't get.
counter argument: that makes the company lose, whereas the grindset makes the company win.
Not committed to him winning. Fuck that shit.
I guess that would make sense to someone with narcissistic or psychopathic personality organization. "All benefits must accrue to me."
Exactly, I am happy normal people stop following this trend en masse. We just need normal lives, we're not aiming to be the richest or the best of the best. It's unhealthy and not cozy at all.
I worked at LNKD through a good part of its rampup. Jeff Weiner made Linkedin what it was. Reid Hoffman was mostly useless and came along for the ride. His "masters of scale" podcast series was a bit of a joke too, he never had anything to do with anything technical or at scale. He is just stealing credit from his betters.
Classic famous ceo Behavior, same with Jobs / Wozniak.
Weird. I feel like I’m winning when I’m on a long vacation doing something adventurous and I feel like I’m fucking losing when I’m staring at a computer screen in an office.
This man is a sociopath. He shouldn't be running a major corporation. He should be living in a rubber room.
I would like to see an email from him with a bullet point list of five things he did this week.
Explains the insanity you see in LinkedIn posts and comments.
Well. I don’t usually listen to the opinions of fat fucks. Because they can’t even manage their own lives. As a technically obese man myself. I power lift and have never had a healthy bmi technically. We should be ignored because we suck at our own health.
Amen brother
shut the fuck up dude lmao you are so sad
^words of a not-sad human being.
Translation: You're not someone we can overwork so easily.
Yeah ...dont fall for this shit
He absolutely has free time and a work and life balance he just wants to take away YOUR life and exploit you
A STRANGE GAME
THE ONLY WINNING MOVE IS NOT TO PLAY
How about a nice game of chess?
Winning what? Profit for other people?
Anyone who devotes the majority of their life to their job is sort of a loser in my opinion.
Unless it's something they're genuinely passionate about that gives them purpose, it's the saddest thing in the world. I don't think that describes the vast majority of us doing our mundane corporate slave work though.
Agreed. I've met some people who devoted their lives to work in nonprofits or public service who I would definitely not call losers. I wouldn't want to be their spouse, but I admire them.
Winning by whose definition?
His line going up.
Working hard and long hours at the detriment of other things can be a good idea. If you have equity, a stake in the thing you're doing. You could print money. But if you're an employee, there's no such incentive.
For me, winning is a job with flexible hours that let's me go home and do some garage work and then cook. I want vacation time and time to see the doctor. I want a good retirement plan and good coverage for the 3 bullshit doctor things... The body doc, the eye doc and the teeth doc. I want a doctor who enjoys work and is not simply seeing me and a thousand other people. I want cheap medicine that is effective. I want free analysis and no copay surprise. i want free hospital stays. I also want free schools k-12 and university for my kids. And I want free vaccines and freedom of speech without fear or retaliation. And I want diversity at my work, I don't wanna be the only black guy! Or the only Chinese or Korean or woman. And I want my job to not make things that hurt people.
This is it. When they forced us back into the office, it was less about afternoon naps and avoiding traffic. It was more about being able to see my dr that closes at 4pm or taking my elderly parents to their appointments. Cooking dinners to avoid takeout and getting ‘me’ time between zoom calls. They took that away from us. Now it’s 9-5 and not a minute more.
Yeah Okay Grant Cardone..
The rest of the context seems important
for founders and entrepreneurs: if you’re serious about starting a company.
Not that I want to encourage this kind of life but with that context he is kinda right. Entrepreneurship is one of those areas where you genuinely get out what you put in. If you want your business to be better, you have to commit the time to it.
Still not always true. If you start a business in a field that interests you and you like it so much that you want to work on it day and night that is ok imo. But if you work in sth day and night because you want to earn tons of money from it, dominate the sector and drive others out of the business, that is a mental disease.
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We have different definitions of winning. If I never work for an asshole like you ever again, I win.
LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman should go eat glass. This is how his likely schedule looks:
8 am: Meetings (optional)
11 am: tax deductible "business" lunch
1 pm: meetings (optional)
6 pm: tax deductible "business" dinner
You're damn fucking right I'm not.
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