I would like to see an email from him with a bullet point list of five things he did this week.
LinkedIn’s cofounder Reid Hoffman says seeking work-life balance is a red flag that you’re ‘not committed to winning’
Submitted 11 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
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Quexotic@infosec.pub 11 months ago
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
Aux@feddit.uk 11 months ago
Read the article maybe.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Not committed to him winning. Fuck that shit.
letsgo2themall@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I am not committed to winning. That’s a good thing. I’m committed to living a decent life.
AvailableFill74@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
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LinkedIn co-founder 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, must be about me. Let me make sure I share my opinion!”
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.
mogranja@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Exactly. Thanks for putting it so clearly.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 11 months ago
Some might say that is winning.
FourWaveforms@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I guess that would make sense to someone with narcissistic or psychopathic personality organization. “All benefits must accrue to me.”
lb_o@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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.
Cocopanda@futurology.today 11 months 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 11 months ago
Amen brother
kreskin@lemmy.world 11 months 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 11 months ago
Classic famous ceo Behavior, same with Jobs / Wozniak.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
Jimius@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
Working hard and long hours at the detriment of other things can be a good idea. If you have equity, a stake in the thing you’re doing. You could print money. But if you’re an employee, there’s no such incentive.
uienia@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The worst people on Earth are the ones who are constantly obsessing about “winning” every situation, so that makes perfect sense to me.
Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Legit, I think this is why board games are a great activity when getting to know new people. No one wants to play with someone 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.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 11 months ago
What about someone who is ultra competitive but also has good sportsmanship?
suite403@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Explains the insanity you see in LinkedIn posts and comments.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 11 months 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.
I’m not sure it wasn’t ever much better, but I remember otherwise.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
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.
Don_alForno@feddit.org 11 months ago
Achieving a healthy work-life-balance IS winning. That’s what the mindless drones don’t get.
desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
counter argument: that makes the company lose, whereas the grindset makes the company win.
Don_alForno@feddit.org 11 months ago
“The company” i.e. somebody else’s money.
Mongostein@lemmy.ca 11 months 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 11 months 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
DicJacobus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah Okay Grant Cardone…
WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
This man is a sociopath. He shouldn’t be running a major corporation. He should be living in a rubber room.
comfy@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
A STRANGE GAME THE ONLY WINNING MOVE IS NOT TO PLAY
Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 11 months ago
How about a nice game of chess?
LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 11 months ago
[deleted]douglasg14b@lemmy.world 11 months 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
jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Lol dumbfuck.
Doolbs@lemmy.world 11 months ago
FTAH==F**K THAT ASSHOLE
yuki2501@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Translation: You’re not someone we can overwork so easily.
nectar45@lemmy.zip 11 months 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
2ugly2live@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Winning by whose definition?
ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 11 months ago
His line going up.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 11 months 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?
Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Anyone who devotes the majority of their life to their job is sort of a loser in my opinion.
CallateCoyote@lemmy.world 11 months 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 11 months 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.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Winning what? Profit for other people?
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago
Jeez what a loser
- Asshole linkedin co-founder, probably
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
mostNONheinous@lemmy.world 11 months ago
We have different definitions of winning. If I never work for an asshole like you ever again, I win.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 11 months ago
You’re damn fucking right I’m not.
toxla@lemm.ee 11 months 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 11 months 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.””
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
that’s bait