I never meant to imply that athletes don't work. Quite the contrary. My apologies.
But I stand by my "butt kissing" remarks.
Nobody ever paid much attention to me or anyone like me just because someone else was bigger or taller and could do cool things with a ball. Make no mistake about it: hero worship of athletes is way out of whack. They're so used to having their butts kissed, they simply do not know how to function in any other environment.
"You certainly wouldn't be shouting about undeserved attention and "butt kissing" if a YC startup was acquired for millions and had tons of PR coverage."
Maybe. Maybe not. The difference is that the butt kissing would be because of the money, not the work, which few people understand anyway.
Excuse me while I paint my face, jump up and down, and act like an idiot while I watch the guy in the next cubicle crank out a bubble sort in one loop :-)
I never meant to imply that athletes don't work. Quite the contrary. My apologies.
But I stand by my "butt kissing" remarks.
Nobody ever paid much attention to me or anyone like me just because someone else was bigger or taller and could do cool things with a ball. Make no mistake about it: hero worship of athletes is way out of whack. They're so used to having their butts kissed, they simply do not know how to function in any other environment.
"You certainly wouldn't be shouting about undeserved attention and "butt kissing" if a YC startup was acquired for millions and had tons of PR coverage."
Maybe. Maybe not. The difference is that the butt kissing would be because of the money, not the work, which few people understand anyway.
Excuse me while I paint my face, jump up and down, and act like an idiot while I watch the guy in the next cubicle crank out a bubble sort in one loop :-)