Rob Wiblin

It's this funny sort of, what do you call it, temptation bundling.

Or maybe it's not quite temptation bundling, but I think...

It's unpleasant to be rejected for a paper or for a job or a grant or whatever else.

But then if you can make content out of it where you get to share your misery with the public and people get to talk about how, well, of course, everyone has been turned down for so many things before.

It somehow makes it, I think, perhaps more enjoyable or motivating for folks because they get to share their frustration.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I mean, I guess it's the challenge with all sorts of discussion about how to be more successful or all lifestyle advice is that you only get this top 10% of like things that people think that they work, things that they're willing to share, which is not most of our lives.

We like prefer to keep it private rather than sharing on social media or putting it in a podcast, which can very much bias kind of all kinds of things you hear.

True.

Yeah, I think that, so obviously most people's CVs are like all of the papers they did publish, all the jobs they did get, and they went through and put into their CV every single time that they were rejected for anything, which made it incredibly long, but entertaining and I think relatable.

What does your day look like?

Is there any way of summing up like broadly speaking, how much time you spend on different kinds of founder like functions?

Yeah.

Yeah.

We've had this interesting experience.

Kieran, who's listening to this at the moment, we used to be in a time zone five hours earlier than me, which meant that because he's an early morning person and I'm a night person, we would basically be in sync with our working hours.

And recently he's been in the same time zone.

This is created issues that at the start of the day, I'm not around.

At the end of the day, he's not around.

I guess it could have gone better, but I think it has actually been more challenging to be out of sync rather than in sync.