The Zeitgeist

I have often wondered how a lot of my friends who run startups manage to do it. They code all day and night, and somehow manage to hang out at parties and go to conferences. Part of it comes, for many of them, from being single. It’s a lot harder to do all that stuff if you’re married and have a family, but quite a few people I know somehow manage to pull it off…

Sadly, I am not one of them. I think that perhaps they have secretly cloned themselves and are having the clones do the grunt-work, and they’re out and about at the parties and conferences. Needless to say I am more than a little bit jealous of all the conferences that other people seem to get to flit off to with wild abandon. *sigh*

One of the hardest things about doing a 2 person startup is that there is just no time to spare anywhere; I am working 16 hrs/ day constantly on code, documentation, trying to line up business alliances, etc. Did I mention I have 2 kids? And a wife? and a dog? What I really need is a clone or two.

(…or a mess of VC cash.)

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