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[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 100 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Shed a tear, if you wish, for Nvidia founder and Chief Executive Jenson Huang, whose fortune (on paper) fell by almost $10 billion that day.

Thanks, but I think I'll pass.

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 44 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I’m sure he won’t mind. Worrying about that doesn’t sound like working.

I work from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to bed. I work seven days a week. When I'm not working, I'm thinking about working, and when I'm working, I'm working. I sit through movies, but I don't remember them because I'm thinking about work.

- Huang on his 14 hour workdays

It is one way to live.

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 50 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

That sounds like mental illness.

ETA: Replace "work" in that quote with practically any other activity/subject, whether outlandish or banal.

I sit through movies but I don't remember them because I'm thinking about baking cakes.

I sit through movies but I don't remember them because I'm thinking about traffic patterns.

I sit through movies but I don't remember them because I'm thinking about cannibalism.

I sit through movies but I don't remember them because I'm thinking about shitposting.

Obsessed with something? At best, you're "quirky" (depending on what you're obsessed with). Unless it's money. Being obsessed with that is somehow virtuous.

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Valid argument for sure

It would be sad if therapists kept telling him that but he could never remember

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"Sorry doc, was thinking about work. Did you say something about line go up?"

I don't think you become the best tech CEO in the world by having a healthy approach to work. He is just wired differently, some people are just all about work.

[–] lauha@lemmy.one 15 points 1 month ago

Some would not call that living

[–] msage@programming.dev 13 points 1 month ago

Yeah ok sure buddy, but what do you DO actually?

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

Psychosis doesn't justify extreme privilege.

People like that consider scrolling xitter work

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

He knows what this hype is, so I don't think he'd be upset. Still filthy rich when the bubble bursts, and that won't be soon.