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Elizabeth Holmes' Daily Schedule
- CodeGlitch 5y agoI swear people who can get up early have a massive advantage in life. Any time before 7:15 is incredibly painful for me.
- gargalatas 5y agoShe was really good at mimicking other people's lives. She still gets dressed like.. apple!
- girafffe_i 5y agoThose affirmations. I honestly wish I practice these habits, but I get caught up in my head and feel like if anyone, ya know, found it, and maybe put it on twitter, that I wouldn't go outside for maybe a decade.
- mgraczyk 5y agoReminds me of this krazam.tv video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o7qjN3KF8U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o7qjN3KF8U
- smnscu 5y agoI know HN is not the place for this, but those guys are so painfully underappreciated. I love so many of their videos, do yourself a favour and watch a few, such as the microservices one: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgBVkKoOAr3ajSdFFLp13_A https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgBVkKoOAr3ajSdFFLp13_A
- tylermauthe 5y agoLegitimate question: why do people find this interesting and/or why is it relevant to the trial?
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- rkk3 5y agoBecause her defense is "her boyfriend made her do it" and this is allegedly a schedule he made for her.
- samhw 5y agoI can definitely see her as that specific type of insecure person who chooses someone like that because they feel they deserve the punishment. It reminds me a little of Nastasya Filippovna, from the Idiot: > No, no; we'd better say good-bye and part friends. I am a bit of a dreamer myself, and I used to dream of you once. Very often during those five years down at his estate I used to dream and think, and I always imagined just such a good, honest, foolish fellow as you, one who should come and say to me: 'You are an innocent woman, Nastasia Philipovna, and I adore you.' I dreamt of you often. I used to think so much down there that I nearly went mad; and then this fellow here would come down. He would stay a couple of months out of the twelve, and disgrace and insult and deprave me, and then go; so that I longed to drown myself in the pond a thousand times over; but I did not dare do it.
- FireBeyond 5y agoThe biggest challenge I have with this (because intimate partner abuse/violence is a real thing and shouldn't be lessened) is that even accounting for their secrecy, the relationship didn't develop until well after Theranos was on a path, and Holmes is claiming sexual harassment from Day 1 (or earlier, when it was "just an idea"). Who thinks repeatedly sexually harassing _your boss_, who can terminate your employment, is a move that's going to earn you career success?? There's also a lot of other evidence to say that she was quite comfortable with how things went in their relationship and at work. Similarly, through all the buildup to where we're at now, not once was this floated, until trial. Holmes was a believer, still touting that we have her and Theranos all wrong, are all luddite naysayers. Day 1 of the trial? "Actually, Sunny made me do it all". Let's not get into the sociopathic narcissism (and other apt phrases) that comes with "I just got the trial calendar for my federal court case that could see me get 20 years in jail. Oh look, in the midst of all that, I got pregnant with a due date that is just before the trial is set to wrap up". Yes, people fall in love, accidents happen, but my thoughts in this scenario have "have a kid" pretty damn far down the list of my priorities (that being said, the aforementioned narcissism and denial could genuinely have her believing "there's no way in hell anyone finds me guilty").
- mdgrech23 5y agoThe formula for becoming a psycho? Sounds like a playbook from the movie American Psycho
- omarfarooq 5y agoWithout any of the finesse.
- kyleblarson 5y agoI was thinking Dorsia.
- siva7 5y agoI doubt this was her practiced schedule. More of like an sketch for her envisioned perfect day. Do you really believe people practice such schedules?
- adventured 5y agoShe seems to be sociopathic, it wouldn't be very surprising if she practiced variations of a schedule like this with the intent of molding herself into an image/fantasy of success, as she was appraently trying to do with quasi copying Jobs. It is certainly unlikely she was able to rigidly maintain a daily schedule like that.
- sky_rw 5y agoDaily affirmations and goals like this are part of nearly every self help system on the market. This is straight out of a Tony Robbins style life success guide.
- fragmede 5y agoExecutives, whether they're sociopaths or not, don't have to hold that schedule all on their own. They have executive assistants and personal assistants (not always different people) to help them with that. I dunno, if I had someone who's job it was to help keep me on that schedule, I think I'd have better luck than the plebes do, don't you?
- handrous 5y agoNot having to do any of your own: housekeeping/cooking/laundry; child-running-around (if you have kids); maintenance on anything including even scheduling work to be done; driving; schedule-keeping; filtering (turning down calls and such from people you have no intention of talking to—your assistant does that for you); shopping (even for stuff you want, but don't need—"assistant; I'd like an X by next week, please find me a good one") et c., really would free up a lot of time & energy.
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- swayvil 5y agoSeems rather tightly-wrapped. But if it works for her. I imagine that her smile is a tad frightening.
- 14 5y agoStep one prey. Very holy of her. Step two enter the world and lie to investors possibly sending some people into financial ruin destroying their lives. The lack of morals but claiming to prey to god just blows me away. Better ask for forgiveness.
- gampleman 5y agoHmm not sure if the misspelling here is intentional to make a point…
- GDC7 5y ago- Inject cypionate to lower voice.
- aaaaaaaaaaab 5y agoNah, her voice was simply faked with effort. Androgens give women a hoarse kind of voice. Check out female bodybuilders on YouTube.
- paxys 5y agoPretty generic executive coach/mentor nonsense
- AutumnCurtain 5y agoYeah, it's the sort of exercise that people do when they're trying to establish good habits (and in this case maybe diet? She's eating very lightly). Seems very much in the "Think and Grow Rich" tradition
- sky_rw 5y agoI'm baffled at the response in these HN comments. There are currently thousands of life coaches and influences all over the internet who tell people to do these exact type of morning aspiration journals. There is nothing abnormal in these notes.
- malermeister 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum Just because thousands of life coaches do it, doesn't mean it isn't a weird thing to do.
- stefan_ 5y agoDing ding. This isn't anyones schedule.
- axpy906 5y agoSuggest title change to include “and Affirmations”. The second picture is of daily affirmations.
- supernova87a 5y agoI've no interest in getting into celebrity gossip. All it says to me is someone who's very young and needs a written to-do list of how to get up in the morning, just to keep barely a grip on life and the un-handleable situation she's put herself into.
- jacquesm 5y agoIf that's what it gives you then that's mission accomplished for team Holmes.
- rubyfan 5y agoI don’t get that. I get an ambitious executive trying to keep metered and in control of their presence and internal state. A routine like this is fairly common among executives. It’s not hard, it’s just choices.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 5y agohttps://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/04/picture-of-the-day-benjamin-franklins-daily-schedule/237615/ https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/04/picture...
- rubyfan 5y agoThat’s such a good corollary.
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- philwelch 5y agoThe part after the daily schedule very strongly reminds me of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmations_(L._Ron_Hubbard) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmations_(L._Ron_Hubbard)
- khazhoux 5y agoThe single most important task for a CEO at a large company is to publicize their daily schedule, describing how they rise at either 5am or 6am (Holmes goes a step further), and then work out and take care of a large amount of business before the rest of the common people even wake up. Bonus points for preparing and having breakfast with your small children after your workout and morning email/decision-making routine. Additional bonus points for family time every evening, as well as prolific reading across a multitude of subjects. It is imperative that people understand the CEO's total superiority over the common person. They do not sleep like everyone else. They don't waste or lose time like everyone else. They do not neglect their family. Their body is toned and strong. Their mind is focused and cultured, with an insatiable appetite for information. Behold, I bring you: the CEO!
- girafffe_i 5y agoConsidering the timezone, her getting up at 4AM GMT+8 is ahead of the world, but still 3 hours before Australia. Australia gets up before everyone, they should be dominating.
- kshacker 5y agoWow you pretty much describe me ... except for me being a CEO, or a CxO, or even just an O. So I guess just my superiority over everyone else. I guess I will take it.
- mdoms 5y agoIt is so funny to me when people on this website absolutely refuse to believe that some people really do like to rise early and get things done in the morning. I almost certainly get lots of stuff done before you get out of bed. You probably get more done than I do in the evening. I don't know why so many of you get bent out of shape about the former but not the latter.
- khazhoux 5y agoOh, the CEO superman mythos is not just about the early rise-time. That's just part of the story of pure ascetic discipline without any detectable sacrifice along any axis. Perfect execution at work, perfect maintenance over one's health and physical shape, perfect family life, perfect mental conditioning and intellectual enrichment. In other words, CEOs are better than any and all of us, in every possible way.
- YXNjaGVyZWdlbgo 5y agoThat's what reading too many self improvement books does to you.
- thih9 5y agoContext: “Elizabeth Holmes says Theranos’ former president abused her”, https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/29/22809049/elizabeth-holmes-sunny-balwani-abuse-fraud https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/29/22809049/elizabeth-holme... > Holmes’ lawyer moved into evidence a bizarre handwritten document. Holmes said she recognized the handwriting as Balwani’s. (...) The document contained instructions such as, “Every morning I will force myself out of bed and spend 30 minutes+ (never a minute less) to write what I want from my day. > Then we saw a schedule Holmes had drawn up for herself on what appeared to be hotel stationery for a hotel in Singapore called Raffles.
- thelittleone 5y agoThe Raffles hotel is probably the most expensive hotel in Singapore.
- buescher 5y agoAlso the birthplace of the Singapore sling cocktail. It's famous.
- swader999 5y agoThis was just her getting over jet lag schedule during one business trip.
- AtlasBarfed 5y agoThis is garden variety type A OCD CEO stuff. Your typical CEO, male or female or whatever, is going to not be that different than this. Now, people are calling this also ironic given the charlatan nature of her career and the naked narcissism it hides. Back to the point about this being typical executive crap: what do you think your typical exec or exec wannabe thinks? It's all about the (narcissistic) goals, and anything else is just a bridge or a barrier to them. Basically every CEO is a showman charlatan and a narcissist. It makes all the Elon hate so funny. People, he's actually par far on the honest/good side of the entire CEO psycho personality statistical distribution. Zuck is probably dead middle. Now try parsing the mindset of the petroleum execs, tobacco execs, mining companies, etc. Capitalism is a genetic engineering framework for producing more and more refined social psychopaths. It doesn't reward "good". It doesn't reward "sharing".
- bserge 5y agoYeah, I'd say the real psychos don't share their thoughts. If you're in a position of power, that's as dumb an idea as it gets. You just do what you want, out of sight, out of mind of the masses.
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- ngngngng 5y agoI bet she could make all that money back if she just pivoted to Elizabeth Smart Holmes and sold a variety of IoT devices for home automation.
- yawz 5y agoMost of the list is daily affirmations, not "a daily schedule". Affirmations are part of my mourning routine as well. I fail to see what's so news-worthy about this.