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Re:The book that inspired the birth of reddit by MWil on Wednesday June 26, 2013 @04:33PM (#5948821)
Serious question: Has anyone ever written a "let your husband change the goddamn world!"-type book. Cause my wife is my barrier. Sure, I'll eat junk food, sit at the PC all day, sleep on the couch. But then half of the PC and half of the couch won't be mine for much longer...
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Re:The book that inspired the birth of reddit by aznjons on Wednesday June 26, 2013 @05:35PM (#5949270)
Serious answer: If your goal is that important to you, it's really a personal issue you will need to work out with yourself and your wife. I think that no book will be able to uniquely address your personal relationship.

Additionally, I am not certain that it is necessary to "eat junk food, sit at the PC all day, sleep on the couch" in order to build a business or change the world. Although it is romantic and might be doable for some people over the course of months and years, sacrificing (subjective) quality of life and sanity should not be the only path to building something meaningful that you care about. It will probably take a lot over work over the long haul. If the console cowboy lifestyle changes are the aspects of creating something that you/your wife are worried about, maybe address those separately from the goal of actually creating something, which I hope would not necessitate those behaviors.

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Re:The book that inspired the birth of reddit by CamperBob2 on Wednesday June 26, 2013 @09:32PM (#5950179)
Serious question: Has anyone ever written a "let your husband change the goddamn world!"-type book. Cause my wife is my barrier. Sure, I'll eat junk food, sit at the PC all day, sleep on the couch. But then half of the PC and half of the couch won't be mine for much longer

"Masters of Doom" addresses this, I think, when it recounts how John Carmack stole an Apple II.

A master will always find a way. But his/her priorities may not always be shared or respected.

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Re:The book that inspired the birth of reddit by 1123581321 on Wednesday June 26, 2013 @07:38PM (#5949826)
I've found if my fingers are flying and I have a determined look on my face, it goes over a lot better.
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Re:The book that inspired the birth of reddit by mhurron on Wednesday June 26, 2013 @05:06PM (#5949058)
I'll go ahead and write this - Perhaps completely ignoring your wife isn't the way to go.

Did that help. I don't really have time for a whole book.

/the wife would get mad at me.

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Re:The book that inspired the birth of reddit by MWil on Wednesday June 26, 2013 @05:29PM (#5949228)
Oh you misunderstood. I meant to explain the "romantic" part of how you can be sitting there in the zone and getting things done and yet to her it just looks like you're at any old regular HuffingtonPost-machine.
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