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by dzhiurgis 335 days ago
> None of us work on a battlefield

Startups are absolutely like battlefields. Maybe even worse since you can't die.

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Please, please be saying this ironically. If not I say this out of genuine concern for a fellow forum member: never say this to anyone in real life, you'll be mocked relentlessly.

Give a friend a pack of firecrackers and tell him to pop one off directly next to your ear randomly for a week. See if it feels anything like even your worse day at a startup. Combat is so traumatic you can see the physiological changes in people's brains.

This was obviously a satire...
The internet has broken me, I apologize.
Get real! On a battlefield, if you stop fighting you get shot. In a startup, if you stop fighting you can go and start a new life.