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.
““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.””
I am not committed to winning. That’s a good thing. I’m committed to living a decent life.
Some might say that is winning.
“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.
Not committed to him winning. Fuck that shit.
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.
Read the article maybe.
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.
What about someone who is ultra competitive but also has good sportsmanship?
As long as they can identifying that “we win” is the same as “I win,” that’s fine. I’d invite them to join us for cooperative games.
Those seek real games, and real games are too hard and elusive to describe in rules.
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.
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.
“The company” i.e. somebody else’s money.
its a matter of perspective, to the company having people devoted to it is good, to the employee it’s bad.
Maybe companies shouldn’t be allowed a perspective unless they’re worker owned. Case closed! --oh wait, the profiteers need slaves for their yachts.
that sounds like a good way to get independent contractors to be used by more companies.
Labor regulation? Never heardofer
If I’m devoted to winning, that means I want to win myself. If I don’t profit from the company’s success outside of being allowed to keep my job, increasing the company’s bottom line isn’t a “win” for me. That’s not a matter of perspective.
Wow what a mind blowing revelation dude you must be so smart
I would like to see an email from him with a bullet point list of five things he did this week.
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.
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.
Yeah well I don’t believe life is a race, and even if it is it’s rigged so who fucking cares?
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.
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
Explains the insanity you see in LinkedIn posts and comments.
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.
I’m fine with boring influencer crap. I just hope it doesn’t become as bad of a right-wing cesspool as Twitter.
LinkedIn is useful for actually finding jobs because I enter my resume ONCE. I hope they don’t throw that away.
This man is a sociopath. He shouldn’t be running a major corporation. He should be living in a rubber room.
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
A STRANGE GAME THE ONLY WINNING MOVE IS NOT TO PLAYHow about a nice game of chess?
