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[–] 126 points 1 year ago (15 children)

"Bizzare"? That's pretty much what I expected of Gabe. I don't imagine he has to work particularly hard. Most CEOs try to hide how much they don't do.

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  • [–] 56 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Having known a number of CEOs over the years, they arent the ones waking up for those 3am calls unless it's a business shattering literally apocalyptic event.

    They honestly shouldn't be the ones taking emergency calls either since most of the time they'll be in the way.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Gabe Newell is not a usual CEO though.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    unless it's a business shattering literally apocalyptic event.

    If that's not an issue relating directly to their role I don't know what it.

    The only reason they'd wake up 3AM for some crisis is if either the market is collapsing or their company is collapsing. Those things happening unexpectedly is something the majority of CEO-s will never experience. I guess it doesn't suck to be a CEO when the sucky thing almost never happen.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    And the market is only open from 9:30-4. Not that steam is even publicly traded.

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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago

    Gabe the Diver.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago

    Clickbaity title. Daily routine stuff is kinda memeish thing to ask successful stuff, and he's trying to be honest about it. He gets to do the light touch management on a lot of fascinating stuff, so it's natural that he wants to do it daily, and he seems to be mixing it up with stuff he does for fun, so it seems like he does it throughout the week, and he seems to have a good attitude about it and looks at it realistically compared to regular work/"horrible job"s.

    Note he doesn't specify times or meals; it's just a rough sketch.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I hope that he decides to work on a neutral payment processing system. Cooperating with the EU's Linux initiatives, he can probably put quite a bit of weight onto the scale, making a digital Euro into a thing.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The EU now has a digital wallet payment system in a trail run

    https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/digital_euro/html/index.en.html

    Would be neat if they integrate it

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    So much for cash anonymity. Unless a payment system is completely anonymous whilst supporting secure transactions, it's a non-starter. Unfortunately the EU does not appear to be able to tolerate privacy for its citizens, hence constant attempts to undermine and curtail any privacy/anonymity-first technologies or concepts.

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