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by Diaznash
2650 days ago
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That sounds like bad advice which has been used to stigmatise/marginalise disabled people and people suffering from chronic diseases over the years. Imagine telling Stephen Hawkins that. Imagine living your life only focused about your health and never trying to achieve your dreams. That is worse than any sickness IMO. Yes they may be at a disadvantage, working slower with many distractions but then a solid idea eventually requires a team. |
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I am actually speaking from personal experience as an ex-founder with a disability. My disability didn't stop me from founding a company (nor did it stop me from becoming a state championship athlete and being one of the first from my hometown to ever become admitted into a top-10 university), but an unrelated chronic health problem kept me from being as productive as I needed to in order to succeed in business.
A lot of health conditions can be worsened by overwork (remember Sam Altman got scurvy while building Loopt?), and founding a startup is one of the hardest things you could possibly do. I know plenty of otherwise healthy people who ended up damaging themselves while trying to start companies.
To this day, I'm still recovering. Overworking and putting yourself in overly-stressful situations is UNHEALTHY, full stop. I made necessary trade-offs (as any sensible founder would) by eating cheaper food, skipping doctors' visits, cutting back on sleep, falling behind on exercising, and getting bargain basement health insurance. In retrospect, I definitely regret it.
It's a bit offensive to me that you are on here virtue signaling as some champion of anti-able-ism even though you are likely perfectly able yourself.