So heartbreaking. The front-line folks at Zynga were worked to the bone, by so many insider accounts. Now all the stock they were counting on has had most of its value evaporate.

But that's life, right? Counting on equity is, simply, a gamble.

Except when you've rigged the table, as Pincus and his cronies have.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanvardi/2012/10/05/zynga-kee...

They got to play by different rules than the folks whose hard work got them to IPO. Instead of being subject to lockup, like the rest of Zynga, they got to cash out early, before the true state of their company was fully appreciated by the market.

So what's the lesson?

Don't trust people willing to fuck people over to make a buck. You're not special. If there's a buck in it, you'll get fucked too.

http://techcrunch.com/2009/11/06/zynga-scamville-mark-pinkus...

		Do not under any circumstances keep to-do lists or use to-do apps. 
		If you can't remember the most important things you need to do every 
		day, you should work on that. And if you can't remember something 
		you "need" to do, it's probably not worth doing in the 
		first place.

Wow. This is terrible advice. Sure it may work for some people who only have a small handful of tasks but for others who have a set of hectic projects (fix this, rewrite that, call her, email him) or even life goals (write a book, make a video game, learn to speak russian, teach daughter how to fight a bear) todo lists and goalsetting is incredibly important.