Exactly. The cited essay is advice from a casino operator to spend all your time playing the slots, so you can cash out and enjoy your life on easy street. It's great advice if you can follow it.
Quite. NEVER take career advice from a VC, he will gladly sacrifice your health, relationships, long term career prospects and anything else he can get his hands on, for his own interests. Which sounds harsh but it is how it is.
Hi. Can someone with downvoting privileges apply the appropriate moderation to the above comment? "This" is the best example of a useless comment, and is nothing more than another version of "AOL!" From the jargon file [1]
And then downvote this reply as well? I got karma to burn. Thanks in advance.
Well maybe all those other suckers are playing the slots just with their dumb luck, but the operator has a totally infallible system that got him where he is - and you too can use the system to make it to the top!
Or, 90% of the time, you run out of money at the end of year four and get to keep doing this nonsense in four-year chunks until you die at your desk.