Nothing bizarre about that. Scuba diving is nice for some people who are shall we say neuro spicy. Nothing I enjoy more than going to the bottom and just chilling in water.
Linus Torwalds seems to agree as per TIL post earlier this week.
This man never does interviews. Then the one interview he does in the last 30 years is trash-tier editing of a vertical video of a laptop screen in a Zoom meeting from 20 feet away, that’s only uploaded as Shorts, by some guy who only has 4 total videos uploaded ever. WTF is up with that?
Dude OK, you read my mind! They also seemingly recorded audio on a mic in the room instead of recording the call directly?? 😵💫 wtf is happening
From what little I know about Gabe, it’s seems he doesn’t want to be the center of attention at valve. He wants Steam to the center of attention. It’s a smart play as we are seeing more and more people turning on techbros and their cult leader status’.
Ironic because Gabe appreciation is still kind of cult like.
Honestly I think the reason for the pseudo cult think is three parts he doesn’t want it, he keeps his head down, and valve generally produces decent services and products. If any of those disappeared folks would probably stop it to a large degree.
Gabe the Diver.
Casual reminder that Gabe Newell owns 6 yachts worth an estimated US$1 billion and that he is not your friend.
Man that has poured shitloads of money into turning linux into a more mainstream desktop platform is rich
Wow.
Not sure exactly what you’re trying to say here but I guarantee 0% of that wealth came from his investments in Linux support. Their investment in Linux is mostly a way of keeping MS in check, as in “if you try to fuck us the way Apple does with iOS, your customers will leave Windows because they’d rather have something where they can play their giant library of existing games”.
No, it’s not a way to keep anything in check. It’s a way to not pay license fees to Microsoft.
Same thing.
Hey if Gabe wants to make Linux phones something to be taken seriously I’m all for that. Until then, Gemini creeps me the fuck out so no android. I can tolerate Siri being fucking dumb.
I think you missed the point. No one was talking about Android or iOS. We were talking about Windows and Linux.
Valve’s investment in Linux began back in the Windows Vista days when MS tried to control Windows the same way that Apple does with iOS.
You literally mentioned iOS above. And my point stands. If Gabe were to start porting those games to a Linux phone of some sort, it would really help that platform, much like he’s helped the Linux community and his own business interests.
Him going after Microsoft benefits everybody. Him going after Apple could do the same.
You literally mentioned iOS above.
It’s literally called an analogy. It was not literally the subject of the conversation.
If Gabe were to start porting those games to a Linux phone of some sort, it would really help that platform
You’re still literally demonstrating that you don’t understand the motive of supporting Linux, despite me literally just explaining it.
Gabe literally does not care about the platform, he cares about protecting his revenue stream. Making Linux phones would literally not do that.
I understand this was motivated by his businesses interests. But it’s happens to benefit others as well. Value working to make Linux phones more viable is a bit of a pipe dream but it would certainly whip Google and Apple into shape. And that was my point.
Man, I just can’t stand a phone that seems like it’s built for children to use and not be able to hurt themselves.
A huge chunk of that Linux development was paid for by exploiting child gambling.
Just because one does a few good things with their money, doesn’t justify how they got it.
Valve was making bank before lootcrates, and lootcrates have been available to kids since trading card games.
Sure, we know loot boxes are bad because they exploit the psychology of gambling. But what about Steam sales? They’re exploiting FOMO, hoarding/collecting psychology. We know that Steam users are buying billions of dollars worth of games they never play.
Now you’re being actually ridiculous. “Sales are bad”? Really?
This dude is 100% correct and I have no idea why people are downvoting him. Sales make people more likely to buy a product due to being limited. Limited time sales work better than lowering prices in the long term.
It’s why indie games do stuff like release their new games with time-limited 10% off discounts.
Ah yes, paying less is bad. Viva capitalism. /s
Are you daft or dumb? Pick one.
Paying less is good. I love sales, but they are still a psychological manipulation to get you to spend more money than you normally would.
Child gambling? You mean like Android videogames and Google not caring about it for a while until some EU law??
I didn’t knew that involved Valve too…
not my friend, but not as clearly my enemy as many other wealthy people
Class consciousness leaving my body when the money hoarder owns the store I buy treats from
So true
I just dont understand miney obsessed people. Why the hell do you need multiple yachts? Why even work at this point when you could just … not? You would still afford everything you ever want without ever checking your bank account. I just dont get it.
He probably enjoys working. Lots of people like to feel like they’re making things happen
I would 100% still work if I were rich. The only thing that would change is when and what I work on.
Helps to keep a healthy routine.
Nothing worse than an unstructured day where you mentally waste away.I still manage to do that with a job 😎👉
Some billionaires are ok.
Name 2.
Me, the last time I visited Iran and had a look at their exchange rate.
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.
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.
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
What handheld is he playing in the top image? Looks too small to be a steam deck
It’s a Steam Deck, he has big hands.
so no different then normal people go to the gym on their lunch break. scuba is just a different kind of workout
I was thinking the gym + meditation/isolation. Expensive and time-consuming? Yes. Does my perceived reasoning for it make sense (gym + mental space)? Also yes.
“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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Sounds like your average IT infrastructure job.
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.
Gabe Newell is not a usual CEO though.
There’s no reason to idolize the man.
He’s definitely also not a “fixes the bug himself” CEO.
We can pretend he’s different. I can freely admit that I like to think he’s different. But no way in hell is he fixing any kind of problem, that arises in the middle of the night, himself.
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There are plenty of non CEO jobs with similar requirements
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Those don’t pay remotely as much.
Gabe sounds like a nice guy. You never hear bad things about him like other CEOs.
