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[-] uienia@lemmy.world 46 points 2 weeks ago

The worst people on Earth are the ones who are constantly obsessing about "winning" every situation, so that makes perfect sense to me.

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[-] Don_alForno@feddit.org 42 points 2 weeks ago

Achieving a healthy work-life-balance IS winning. That's what the mindless drones don't get.

[-] desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 weeks ago

counter argument: that makes the company lose, whereas the grindset makes the company win.

[-] Don_alForno@feddit.org 7 points 2 weeks ago

"The company" i.e. somebody else's money.

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[-] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 34 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The rest of the context seems important

for founders and entrepreneurs: if you’re serious about starting a company.

[-] ThunderWhiskers@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, that’s honestly very true about starting a small business.

[-] Jhex@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Guess what kind of boss a person following this bullshit advice would make

[-] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, that's actually a fair comment. Getting a new business off the ground, pretty much any business, is something that requires a big time commitment at the start.

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[-] LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 28 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

For real I love it when I'm not at work having fun and living life even if it's just boring and I'm at home just working on some house projects and riding my bike

[-] letsgo2themall@lemmy.world 27 points 2 weeks ago

I am not committed to winning. That's a good thing. I'm committed to living a decent life.

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 13 points 2 weeks ago

Some might say that is winning.

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[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 23 points 2 weeks ago

Winning what? Profit for other people?

[-] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 23 points 2 weeks ago

This man is a sociopath. He shouldn't be running a major corporation. He should be living in a rubber room.

[-] yuki2501@lemmy.world 20 points 2 weeks ago

Translation: You're not someone we can overwork so easily.

[-] nectar45@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 weeks ago

Anyone who devotes the majority of their life to their job is sort of a loser in my opinion.

[-] CallateCoyote@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] MirthfulAlembic@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] FourWaveforms@lemm.ee 16 points 2 weeks ago

I guess that would make sense to someone with narcissistic or psychopathic personality organization. "All benefits must accrue to me."

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[-] 2ugly2live@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago

Winning by whose definition?

[-] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

His line going up.

[-] comfy@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 weeks ago
A STRANGE GAME

THE ONLY WINNING MOVE IS NOT TO PLAY
[-] Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 2 points 2 weeks ago

How about a nice game of chess?

[-] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah well I don’t believe life is a race, and even if it is it’s rigged so who fucking cares?

[-] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago

I'm only committed to winning in that way if winning means that I am getting a cut of the company profits.

I'm at my salary will reflect the profitability and growth of the company.

Otherwise I'm just another wage slave that you're trying to abuse, and take away my work is rights

[-] toxla@lemm.ee 12 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] CalipherJones@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

"“When we started LinkedIn, we started with people who had families. So we said, sure, go home have dinner with your family. Then, after dinner with your family, open up your laptop and get back in the shared work experience and keep working.”"

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[-] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] DistressedDad@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] Jhex@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

"Jeez what a loser"

_- Asshole linkedin co-founder, probably

[-] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

I'll be joining the Dow people next week when it drops another 68 percent. They say it hurts less if you jump from the fifth floor or higher. But if you go too high like the 20th floor, you could have enough times to freakout. So you gotta find your Happy medium.

[-] kreskin@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] PurpleGameBoy@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 weeks ago

Classic famous ceo Behavior, same with Jobs / Wozniak.

[-] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Every "famous leader" ; if you want to know a good company, look at ones which didn't have famous leaders or did have leaders notorious for not being famous. DEC, Sun. IBM, after all, though not as cool.

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 weeks ago

If you're not willing to sacrifice your life and happiness for me then what do you think you're doing with your life?

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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

[-] suite403@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

Explains the insanity you see in LinkedIn posts and comments.

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I'm worried that LinkedIn has gotten worse. If it's not an update about a new job or a work anniversary, it's some influencer-type grind-cult post or a "how to do X with specifically our product" kind of advertiser seminar clip (and I don't need more ansible in my life, thanks).

I'm not sure it wasn't ever much better, but I remember otherwise.

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[-] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

Not committed to him winning. Fuck that shit.

[-] mostNONheinous@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

We have different definitions of winning. If I never work for an asshole like you ever again, I win.

[-] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Winning what? There are different prizes and different lottery ticket prices.

What really tells you are not committed to winning is listening to someone's talk on that.

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[-] Cocopanda@futurology.today 4 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] themaninblack@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Amen brother

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[-] DicJacobus@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah Okay Grant Cardone..

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 points 2 weeks ago

You're damn fucking right I'm not.

[-] loaf@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

Just because he has no life doesn’t mean others shouldn’t have one. Boo this man.

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