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skmurphy Jun 29, 2010 | on: Ask HN: Can startup founders afford to spend time on… | context
A variant of this question was asked in "Sacrifice Your Health For Your Startup" at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=679045 referring to http://blog.asmartbear.com/blog/sacrifice-your-health-for-yo... pg had a good answer at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=679278 I look at hobbies as maintenance for your mental and emotional health. |
I disagree with this. It's a net win to exercise. You're repaid for the couple hours a week you lose with greater productivity during the remaining hours.
This is the crucial mistake:
"How much time does a bootstrapped company take? All of it."
That's not true. What a startup (bootstrapped or not) takes is 100% of your performance, not 100% of your time. And optimizing for performance means spending some time on maintenance.
For the same reason, it's not good to live on junk food. It makes you less productive. The best food for founders is probably rice and beans. That's what we lived on during Viaweb.