The ‘Shamanification’ of the Tech CEO | WIRED

From fruit-only diets to dopamine fasting, Silicon Valley founders flaunt self-deprivation like a misguided pursuit of wellness. But there’s more to it.

Save this story Save this story Success these days seems to require deprivation. Steve Jobs, that god-pharaoh of innovation, went stretches eating only fruit. Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey says he eats a single meal each day. Tech execs from Phil Libin (former CEO of Evernote) to Daniel Gross (former partner at Y Combinator) prostrated themselves at the shrine of intermittent fasting. Zappos founder Tony Hsieh practiced a 26-day “alphabet diet”, eating only foods that started with a different letter each day. And then there’s Elizabeth Holmes. In late 2014 journalist Ken Auletta profiled Holme

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