Elizabeth Holmes' Daily Schedule

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by Hrundi • 5 years ago

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tylermauthe• 5 years ago

Legitimate question: why do people find this interesting and/or why is it relevant to the trial?

rkk32• 5 years ago

Because her defense is "her boyfriend made her do it" and this is allegedly a schedule he made for her.

samhw• 5 years ago

I 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.

FireBeyond6• 5 years ago

The 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").

version_five2• 5 years ago

Yes I agree, whatever you think of her, this (sharing here notes on social media) is basically just mean gossip.

CalChris• 5 years ago

In her own handwriting?

FireBeyond6• 5 years ago

Err, she and her counsel are the ones who entered this into the _public record_ specifically to (attempt to) exonerate her.

There's very little "mean gossip" about it.

killingtime74• 5 years ago

Have you never wondered how a genius/suspected scammer spends their day? Are they just like us? Like the videos of Hitler practicing his speeches

heavymark• 5 years ago

In regards to why do people find personal insights into famous (or infamous) people's lives, I would presume that is more common than not, but of course others like yourself presumably find no such interesting in what her daily schedule is or Julia Roberts. As to why it would be relevant, assuming she wrote it, certainly seems to show her a certain type of person that would plan their day down to the minute and put things such as change (clothes), shower, and pretty much everything other than put one foot and from of the other. So if she were to portray herself as someone whose not big into details and thus has no idea what was going on at her company or the details, evidence like this would probably draw a picture of someone who is very much into the details and or other character qualities.

mdgrech23• 5 years ago

The formula for becoming a psycho? Sounds like a playbook from the movie American Psycho

omarfarooq• 5 years ago

Without any of the finesse.

kyleblarson2• 5 years ago

I was thinking Dorsia.

siva7• 5 years ago

I doubt this was her practiced schedule. More of like an sketch for her envisioned perfect day. Do you really believe people practice such schedules?

winter_squirrel• 5 years ago

Is it really that hard to believe someone would do it somewhat regularly? I certainly don't do it every day, but more often then not I'll do the same kind of things in the morning (wake up around 4 - 4:30am, meditate, exercise, shower / clean, ...). It's just basic habits

The part after the schedule is weird for sure, but the schedule itself sounds fine.

echlebek• 5 years ago

Maybe it sounds fine to you, but to me, a night owl, it sounds absolutely insane. I would go insane if I had to do this and I don't know if I would ever recover.

thelittleone2• 5 years ago

I'm the same. These habits are the foundation of my day. It's my choice to start with something I can control. Achieve some things, build some momentum before letting the world (news, emails - things I cant control) in.

quocanh• 5 years ago

If Elizabeth Holmes did actually follow this schedule, then she wouldn't have to write it down. This is a wishlist. I actually do practice a similar schedule to this but I have never written it down anywhere. Writing it down and hoping you do it never works. This is the sort of thing you build naturally, piece-by-piece, and over time.

adventured• 5 years ago

She 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.

fragmede• 5 years ago

Executives, 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?

sky_rw2• 5 years ago

Daily 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.

kyleblarson2• 5 years ago

Jocko Willink posts a picture of his watch during his workout every morning, usually in the 4:20 to 4:30 range.

hogFeast2• 5 years ago

A psychologist would have a field day with that.

FireBeyond6• 5 years ago

He was also in the military for 21 years, so waking up early is probably a long-ingrained habit by now.

et-al• 5 years ago

https://thecooperreview.com/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-junior-go...

Which was a parody of: https://www.businessinsider.com/a-day-in-the-life-of-hsbc-ex...

woodruffw• 5 years ago

I know of a handful of people who practice(d) regimented schedules like this. I also know a few people for habitually draw up schedules and then fail to follow them.

Benjamin Franklin's schedule (from his autobiography) is a famous and probably factual example[1].

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/04/picture...

thih9• 5 years ago

Context: “Elizabeth Holmes says Theranos’ former president abused her”, 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.

thelittleone2• 5 years ago

The Raffles hotel is probably the most expensive hotel in Singapore.

buescher• 5 years ago

Also the birthplace of the Singapore sling cocktail. It's famous.

YXNjaGVyZWdlbgo• 5 years ago

That's what reading too many self improvement books does to you.

swayvil• 5 years ago

Seems rather tightly-wrapped. But if it works for her.

I imagine that her smile is a tad frightening.

14• 5 years ago

Step 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• 5 years ago

Hmm not sure if the misspelling here is intentional to make a point…

GDC7• 5 years ago

- Inject cypionate to lower voice.

aaaaaaaaaaab• 5 years ago

Nah, her voice was simply faked with effort. Androgens give women a hoarse kind of voice. Check out female bodybuilders on YouTube.

paxys• 5 years ago

Pretty generic executive coach/mentor nonsense

stefan_• 5 years ago

Ding ding. This isn't anyones schedule.

AutumnCurtain• 5 years ago

Yeah, 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_rw2• 5 years ago

I'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• 5 years ago

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.

swader999• 5 years ago

This was just her getting over jet lag schedule during one business trip.

AtlasBarfed• 5 years ago

This 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".

mgraczyk• 5 years ago

Reminds me of this krazam.tv video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o7qjN3KF8U

smnscu• 5 years ago

I 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

supernova87a• 5 years ago

I'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• 5 years ago

If that's what it gives you then that's mission accomplished for team Holmes.

rubyfan2• 5 years ago

I 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• 5 years ago

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/04/picture...

rubyfan2• 5 years ago

That’s such a good corollary.

ngngngng• 5 years ago

I 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.

axpy906• 5 years ago

Suggest title change to include “and Affirmations”. The second picture is of daily affirmations.

yawz• 5 years ago

Most 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.

philwelch• 5 years ago

The part after the daily schedule very strongly reminds me of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmations_(L._Ron_Hubbard)

khazhoux2• 5 years ago

The 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!

kshacker• 5 years ago

Wow 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• 5 years ago

It 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.

khazhoux2• 5 years ago

Oh, 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.

theshrike79• 5 years ago

We aren't criticising people who get up early. It's people who claim to do the Mark Wahlberg routine[0]

  2:30 a.m. wake up
  2:45 a.m. prayer time
  3:15 a.m. breakfast #1: steel oats, peanut butter, blueberries, and eggs
  3:40-5:15 a.m. workout #1
  5:30 a.m. breakfast #2: protein shake, three turkey burgers, five pieces of sweet potato
  6 a.m. shower
  7:30 a.m. golf
  8 a.m. snack: 10 turkey meatballs
  9:30 a.m. cryo chamber recovery
  10:30 a.m. breakfast #3: grilled chicken salad with two hard-boiled eggs, olives, avocado, cucumber, tomato, and lettuce
  11 a.m. family time/meetings/work calls
  1 p.m. lunch: New York steak with green peppers
  2 p.m. meetings/work calls
  3 p.m. pick up kids from school
  3:30 p.m. snack: grilled chicken with bok choy
  4 p.m. workout #2
  5 p.m. shower
  5:30 p.m. dinner/family time: fish (halibut or cod or sea bass) with veggies (such as sautéed spinach and bok choy)
  7:30 p.m. bedtime

According to this schedule, Wahlberg has eaten three breakfasts before I've eaten anything. Is he a hobbit? :D

[0] https://manofmany.com/lifestyle/fitness/mark-wahlbergs-diet-...

girafffe_i2• 5 years ago

Considering 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.

CodeGlitch• 5 years ago

I swear people who can get up early have a massive advantage in life. Any time before 7:15 is incredibly painful for me.

girafffe_i2• 5 years ago

Those 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.

gargalatas• 5 years ago

She was really good at mimicking other people's lives. She still gets dressed like.. apple!

Elizabeth Holmes' Daily Schedule

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