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RoGeorge:

--- Quote from: Kasper on December 12, 2022, 10:48:38 pm ---I've seen a few times when Elon was asked how to be successful, his reply was along the lines of, 'it's not a guarantee but working 80 to 100 hours a week is a good start.  In 3 to 6 months, you can accomplish what would normally take 1 year.'

It is not surprising he brings beds to workplaces.

--- End quote ---

I think that was about having your own business, not about working for somebody else 80-100 hours.

When you have a startup you'll work 24/7 to make your dream come true.  Often, you'll do that together with friends and family, and often the first office is at home, or in a garage, so the hours doesn't look like a 9 to 5 job at all.  And you don't have meetings in a startup, because you are together all the time, often in the same room.  You'll find yourself in some sort of frenzy non-stop working, just as in a video game you'll want to play longer to finish the level.

Apart from hard work and long hours, to succeed with your startup you'll need money, relations, and luck.  I've tried a couple of times and failed.  No regrets for trying.  Sometimes is very hard, sometimes it feels like flying.
vk6zgo:

--- Quote from: RoGeorge on December 13, 2022, 08:32:33 am ---
--- Quote from: Kasper on December 12, 2022, 10:48:38 pm ---I've seen a few times when Elon was asked how to be successful, his reply was along the lines of, 'it's not a guarantee but working 80 to 100 hours a week is a good start.  In 3 to 6 months, you can accomplish what would normally take 1 year.'

It is not surprising he brings beds to workplaces.

--- End quote ---

I think that was about having your own business, not about working for somebody else 80-100 hours.

When you have a startup you'll work 24/7 to make your dream come true.  Often, you'll do that together with friends and family, and often the first office is at home, or in a garage, so the hours doesn't look like a 9 to 5 job at all.  And you don't have meetings in a startup, because you are together all the time, often in the same room.  You'll find yourself in some sort of frenzy non-stop working, just as in a video game you'll want to play longer to finish the level.

Apart from hard work and long hours, to succeed with your startup you'll need money, relations, and luck.  I've tried a couple of times and failed.  No regrets for trying.  Sometimes is very hard, sometimes it feels like flying.

--- End quote ---

Possibly a startup might be better than trying to bring an existing business back from the dead.

We bought a corner store, which looked like it had just been poorly run, & were going to, by "working really hard", "build it up".
Lots of lessons learnt there-----
 
(1)Most of our big selling items had such small profit margins it wasn't worth staying open late to sell them.
(2) Big companies can afford tiny margins, small ones can't
(3) Many small businesses should have closed years ago.

It was fun, sometimes, but it nearly broke us.
RJSV:
   It's 'Narrative Transition'!
That's the term I was trying to remember, that term as part of (attempts) to use partisan- neutral analysis.
(Sorry took so long, that was last week).  Here, in this thread you might see a total blocking or ignoring, of news breaking...(sigh...do I have to literally lay this out...sigh); but then, usually suddenly, a whole flock of focus...on that same sub-topic.

   Parts of that dynamic, I'm avoiding, due to risking being off-topic, and parts, (Twitter) do relate here, as Musk does, by virtue of title.
Musk, Fauchi, censorship algorithms,...and cover...lots and lots of cover. 
OK, (sigh...), rant done...resume cover ops.
Ranayna:
So, allegedly Twitter is not paying rent anymore.
Additionally, they are looking at what the consequences of simply not paying the agreed severance packages would be.
Article in German: https://www.heise.de/news/Twitter-zahlt-seit-Wochen-keine-Miete-Einbehaltung-von-Abfindungen-wird-geprueft-7393789.html

The latter, ok, Musk has just enough money to just sit out any lawsuits. But i wonder if, as the sole owner of the company, he may be personally liable for crap like this.

:popcorn:
james_s:
Those both seem like losing propositions. The landlord will be a company with deep pockets that can afford to sue the company, and not paying the agreed upon severance packages is going to completely destroy his reputation and I would expect the courts to force him to do that too. If he's not careful he could end up pissing someone off enough to physically attack him, a desperate person that has lost their livelihood might not feel like they have much to lose. I wouldn't be upset if somebody that got stiffed like that shot him.
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