How I lost 160lbs after selling my company to Atlassian (opens in new tab)

Presumably there is some point to your behavior. If you are doing this to secure some future standard of living, it might be worth noting that more people than work in SV tech work in tech outside of SV and work regular business hours. Many, many, many of us already have the standard of living you might hope to achieve some day. And we do it on salaries that are a fraction of yours.

We must all make our own choices. But for many your choices look reckless. You are sacrificing much in pursuit of something you will probably never capture because by the time you are in a position to capture it you will have turned yourself into a person unable to benefit from the thing you pursue.

For many in your position, your current lifestyle is fun and exciting. It's a ride. If that is true for you, so be it. But if you have outgrown that, don't chain yourself to the hope of some false future. Figure out how to achieve happiness today while securing financial stability for the future.

Consider moving to Alabama and working a 9-5 job. Mowing your lawn every Saturday and playing frisbee with your kids isn't everybody's ideal, but it might be a lot more satisfying than you expect.

>"Employees are non-verbally expected to live/eat/work at the office (9-8). If a new hire were to start clocking out at 5, they would not last long."

An 11 hour work day as a matter of course? I'm sorry but this truly sounds miserable. If all you have time for outside of work is sleep, whats the point?

>"We'll commonly go for a 1-1.5hr run in the middle of the day along Embarcadero to try to obtain the best of both worlds, not losing our equity and staying healthy."

So even your "break" from the office involves being around the same work people? That activity may be physically healthy but maybe not the best mentally. This sounds like an incredibly unbalanced life style.

So, what are you hoping to get out of this? I ask not in a condescending way, but with hope that you've thoroughly thought this through and understand the tradeoffs you're making. Certainly you could make a good living elsewhere. Is it for resume building? Are you getting insane stock options? How long are you planning to continue at that pace?

Would you say Glassdoor reviews are accurate about that work life balance? Just want to know so I can continue avoiding these types of places.

Every decision requires tradeoffs. Which company to work at. How to commute. Whether to work at home. What to eat. Etc. The question is whether you can fully understand the tradeoffs you're making.

Ultimately CICO is a great model that will help guide healthy eating and weight loss. IMO working "normal" hours is not critical, but may be a valuable method to help buoy spirits and thus avoid unhealthy meal/snack choices.

Aside: going for a mid-day walk has benefits beyond health -- it also helps creativity [1].

[1] http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/xlm-a0036577.pdf

This sounds unbearable. Why not work for a less whip-happy company? Surely the compensation's not 10x.

That sounds like hell.

Is there actually a good reason to put yourself in such conditions?