{"id":5149,"date":"2020-12-02T12:43:22","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T07:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/?p=5149"},"modified":"2020-12-02T12:43:22","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T07:13:22","slug":"optimize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/02\/optimize\/","title":{"rendered":"optimize"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It took me four years to realize the power of optimization. A founder&#8217;s life is on a roller coaster. Someday an employee will leave, some other day customers, there will be days when you will feel like giving up, and another day your personal life will be a wreck. The sooner we accept and optimize for this scenario: making peace with the everyday chaos, we will feel less miserable. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nothing in our life is permanent: even the billionaires with all their money die. They optimize their life expectancy better than the poor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seneca, the stoic philosopher who was poisoned by Nero, talks about how short our allocated span of life is. He suggests optimizing our life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ABRN0E_mI0U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It took me four years to realize the power of optimization. A founder&#8217;s life is on a roller coaster. Someday an employee will leave, some other day customers, there will be days when you will feel like giving up, and another day your personal life will be a wreck. The sooner we accept and optimize &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/02\/optimize\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;optimize&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5149"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5150,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5149\/revisions\/5150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}