Dave Evans
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And I fall into startups.
And that's a long story.
And I didn't ever think I wanted to be doing that.
I sort of fell into it.
And I didn't know I was a workaholic.
It turns out that I am.
And I'm working, you know, 70, 80 hours a week, sleeping three or four hours a night.
Been doing that for a couple of years.
And I'm sitting in the family room with a cup of coffee on a Saturday morning.
And my now 42-year-old, then three-year-old son, Robbie,
is in the kitchen and asks his mother, Mom, can we play with Dad today or he's just going to fall asleep in the chair again?
And my heart sank.
And I went, shit.
I didn't have a dad because he was dead.
Robbie doesn't have a dad because he's asleep.
This is not okay.
This is not okay.
So I'm optimizing for the wrong thing.
I'm killing it at work, but it's killing me.
It took me six years to fix that, by the way.