Never fail to talk about how hard you’re working, how strained your resources are and how you and your company are “doing the best you can” with what you have… even if you’ve got millions of dollars in VC money to work with. Lowering expectations creates opportunities for rock-climbing, world-traveling and other hard work.

I loved this line. Thanks for the chuckle.

Probably not sustainable long-term but I have good habits otherwise so I’m getting away with it.

Do you have a time machine by any chance?

My time management isn’t too good but it’s still early days yet.

Clearly this post went above your head so let’s make this simple and get to the argument Arrington made which you reiterate.

If you want work-life balance, you WILL lose.

Lose what?

I’m in my 20s, I run several profitable businesses (none of which has raised venture capital money) and I trade stocks and options for a small investment fund belonging to a wealthy individual.

I work hard but I have no problem maintaining a lifestyle that affords me the ability to indulge in all the personal activities I enjoy.

If you are who I think you are, I find it funny that somebody who just graduated college and entered the workforce in 2008 is lecturing about the nature of business and competition.

How many $50,000+ sales have you personally negotiated? How many publicly-traded companies have you counted as clients? What countries have you done business in? What responsibilities have you held on deals worth more than $1 million?

I’m not a billionaire and I’ve had my fair share of failures but I started my first business when I was a teenager and I’ve probably made more money shorting the stock of the company you work for in the past 6 months than you make in annual salary.

I enjoy long meals at nice restaurants. I travel. I read. I date. I work out an hour a day. I drink wine. I even find time to write.

Given all of this, pray tell, what exactly am I losing?

As for my street cred, unlike some “credible entrepreneurs” who buy a $100,000 car and want local television stations to cover the delivery, I have no interest in revealing the size of my penis to everyone browsing the Internet.

Thanks for your comment. I hope that whatever game you’re trying to win has more than one player. After all, life is too short to be lonely, ignorant and miserable.

“You absolutely dismissed every single credible entrepreneur as living a life of satisfaction and laziness, to a degree.”

How can you absolutely do anything to a degree? That’s just contradicting yourself.

Since when were “Michael & Gang” every single credible entrepreneur? The point of this post is about (and this is something you really need to do if you think only 4 people are successful entrepreneurs) learning to understand and respect other cultures from which significant contributions to your way of life come from.