Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston Interview [video]

Re:Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston Interview [video] by markokrajnc on Friday October 10, 2014 @04:23AM (#8436751)

This "from time to time" should be daily. A very big part of happiness comes from relationships. Often you don't realize this and even make jokes like this one:

Q: "Do you have time for private life in Silicon Valley?" A: "What's this?" and then LOL because you know you are doing too little for your personal life...

If you would give only 15% more of your focused time to your spouse, kids, father, mother, friends... they would value it a lot! And it would be your long-term success! Are you ready to make such a small sacrifice for your "private life start-up"?

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Re:Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston Interview [video] by AnimalMuppet on Friday October 10, 2014 @12:19PM (#8438559)

I wish I had really understood this 20 years ago. And I wasn't even in a startup. I just had things I wanted to work on that took time. Good things, useful things, but I put time/energy/thought into them that should have been spent on my kids.

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Re:Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston Interview [video] by EGreg on Friday October 10, 2014 @01:34PM (#8439019)

Those things are like your baby but when you have a real baby then thats your BABY!

I think all people want to transcend their own death and for men, it's through creating useful things and for women the instinct is more for raising good children.

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Re:Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston Interview [video] by personjerry on Friday October 10, 2014 @02:44PM (#8439387)

I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you, but you may want to be careful with the generalizations.

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Re:Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston Interview [video] by EGreg on Friday October 10, 2014 @02:48PM (#8439410)

I usually throw them out there because if someone disagrees I may learn something. I imagine I gain more than I lose from that.

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