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The startup never left my mind. At any given

moment I was either architecting a cool piece
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programmers of tech, pouring my misguided ideas into
work at night code, creating business strategies, thinking
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about what the others were doing, or
learning to be a better entrepreneur.

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It got so bad I was listening to
entrepreneurship podcasts whenever I had
more than 10 minutes of “free” time, just so I
could squeeze that extra bit of productivity
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Everyone spent at least eleven hours a day in

From disgruntled
that dark hackerspace basement. We
developer, to founder, to
occupied a sofa, two tables, and three
burnout
whiteboards.
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There was no time for deep thought. We
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The other programmer was the first to go. He
simply stopped coming to the office. He
didn’t answer any of my calls or emails. For a
few weeks even his friends were asking me if
I’d seen him.

Do programmers work at I don’t know what happened, but he was a

night? cool guy and I still feel bad for doing that to
him. Last we met he was working for an
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established startup and finishing his studies.
What about other He didn’t seem to hold a grudge.
creatives?

Statistics He was the first to give up on us, but I was

the first to start burning out. I started taking
Why programmers work at long car rides to nothing. Just sit in the car
night and drive aimlessly around the city listening
to bad music on the radio and looking at the
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