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Do Not Play the Paperclip Game
I saw The Link at exactly 10:11pm last night. I noted the time because the article I saw it in said that the game would occupy at least the next couple hours. “No way,” I foolishly thought, but I noted the time anyway. A couple thousand clicks and optimizations later I look up and it’s 12:33am. I swore I had only been a few minutes. An hour tops. Nope, 2 hours 22 minutes. I played until 1:11am and went to bed with the screen running. I awoke to a couple trillion dollars invested and the planet slowly running out of resources left to turn into paperclips. Never fear, once you consume…
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Handling Stress
Stress. As a CEO you’re supposed to be immune to stress. You’re the captain of the ship; the general of the army. Never let them see you sweat…all that stuff. But, you’re also human. All humans experience stress in one form or another and a various times. The important thing is what to do about it. The way you handle the stress that life presents is the key. The other issue as a CEO is that you rarely have people you can confide in. No one really wants to hear about your troubles, and, see above, you are not supposed to have any troubles. Many of the activities you can…
