The reason people use drugs of any kind is because they want to escape, Delaney says. I had suicidal ideations from a very, very young age because I assumed that, if I was dead, maybe my mum and dad wouldn't be arguing.
No one wants to write a shitty code base. You want healthy code. And so, what founders don't realize is, when you're not taking care of your health, you are shitty code. You are not beautiful code.
He told me that Ashly did something to herself and she was being taken to the hospital, and he told me she was stable. I said what happened, and he told me, it had been 11 hours prior.
Compared with people who reported drinking no coffee, those reporting 3-4 cups per day had longer telomeres, while those reporting 5 or more cups per day did not show the same association.
"He's 0-for-30. Simple as that. You can say there's a lot of line drives in there, but you get to a place of playing every day for a week and not having any results, and it wears on you. It wears on you mentally as much as anything."
"How do we let a $20 bathroom scale dictate how we feel about ourselves? I remember stepping on the scale and seeing numbers that somehow determined how I valued myself. What a ridiculous way to measure our worth."
Getting an ADHD diagnosis at 40 provided clarity about my overwhelming feelings and the sense of losing control over my life, which many can relate to.
