/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>7470914
>Out of curiosity, what exactly are people doing so they need this stuff? What is it that you need more time for? Texting? Video games?

Siliconvalleyfag here. Anon at >>7473154 basically covered it.

There's a whole cult of productivity in startup culture. The reality is that VCs use it to get more work out of their founders - and the founders use it to get more work out of their workers. One of its tenets is "passion" - you're supposed to like your job so much that you'd do it for free. 24/7. Because it's just so awesome. One of the ways you demonstrate passion is the 60-80 hour workweek, leaving no time for cooking/eating. The guy genuinely prefers his work to food? Must be passionate!

Another one of the ways you can demonstrate passion is by loudly proclaiming you have no time for cooking/eating. The guy doesn't go to lunch, he drinks Soylent at his desk. Must be passionate!

No disrespect to /fit/ folks (who actually *are* using food as fuel), but that's the core of it. If your gainz are more important than having that carb-heavy beer, you drink water. Similarly, if the high you get from coding is more important than the pleasure you get from eating a nice meal, you eat Soylent.

For every person who's actually like that, there are dozens of imitators/wannabees. Eric Cartman "bulks up" with Weight Gain 4000 Protein Powder to demonstrate BEEFCAKE because BEEFCAKE! And Joe Neckbeard drinks soylent instead of food to demonstrate PASSION about coding which is his PASSION to his silicon valley cow orkers.