Sports: The Reason Why I Don't Invent a Bunch of Cool Stuff for the Internet
While reading George Packer's fragmented and arresting book about the fragmentation of America (The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America) I learned why I am not more like Peter Thiel -- who has a long list of entrepreneurial and technological achievements, among them co-founding PayPal-- because to get hired by Thiel you not only had to be "incredibly smart" but also "without distracting obligations like wives and children or time-wasting hobbies like sports and TV . . . one applicant was turned down because he admitted to enjoying shooting hoops."
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What's the point of making tons of money if you don't spend some of it on stupid hobbies? Does chasing women count as a hobby? If so then this clown only hires chaste workaholics.
you work at the circus?
The rodeo, actually.
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