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Spiritual Weight Loss
My stay in graduate school was truncated by the commercialization and then
sudden popularization of the Internet in the mid 1990s. I had received my
master’s degree from MIT and qualified for and begun the PhD program in 1995
when, like many of my lab mates, I dropped out of school to pursue my fortune
by moving to California to form an Internet company. I had two partners, one of
them my long-time best friend. At the time they were both doing local computer
repairs – replacing hard drives, installing anti-virus software and that sort of thing
– and after many excited conversations I convinced them to start an Internet
company. The Internet boom was the gold rush of my generation, and I was not
going to miss out on it!
We formed a Web site development company, and before long we had a staff of
over a dozen people and were developing high-profile Web sites for a number of
Fortune 500 companies. While making Web sites was a good business, all three
of us really wanted to be video game developers, so we formed another
company devoted to making video games.
Because I was such a workaholic and so intensely devoted to building these
companies, I was working 100+ hours a week on a regular basis. When you
factor in that I typed over 100 words a minute and worked intensely, rarely taking
breaks, you can understand that a huge strain was being put on my body. In
retrospect, it is no surprise that it only took about a year before I was afflicted
with devastating repetitive stress injuries.
For those who may think that computer injuries and other forms of repetitive
stress are a joke, let me tell you that anyone who has experienced serious
repetitive stress injuries knows that they are about as funny as being hit by a
Mack truck (that is, not funny at all.) I suffered from terrible pain and restricted
movement in my back, neck, and right arm and shoulder, and I was left unable to
work or do much of anything. It was painful to shave myself, and it was painful to
drive. Sometimes I had to ask other people to cut my food for me because it was
too painful to do it myself. I could not even read books because it was too much
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