A while later, when I wrote about it, I got my 15 minutes of fame out of the whole experience. But the real benefit was

It wasn’t altruism; Zappos was better off without employees who didn’t want to be there. But, I can’t help but think that it was a real favor for people who took jobs at Zappos only to realize it wasn’t the right fit.

Continue to eat carbs (or add them back) for your high-intensity exercise. You’ll feel and perform better with healthy carbs on board. You can also consider eating most carbs before and after your workout, as this is when your body is most primed to use them. Have a sweet tooth? Eat your candy before your workout.

But if you ask me, all of us need to get as much of that as we can, as fast as we can. We were put here to love. As much of life, in all its forms, as we can hold, in the achingly brief time we have. That is what “we’re social beings” means in the most essential, simplest form.

I’ve seen clients lose up to eight pounds in a week. That’s motivating! Forget that giving up carbs (keto diets require 15–30g of net carbs per day) long-term is incredibly hard and that it rules out healthy foods like fruits, whole grains, and starchy vegetables.

There are many good reasons to remember Tony Hsieh, but I keep thinking about one in particular: an unusual employment policy at Zappos, where Hsieh was CEO for two decades.

He was also a booster of the city of Las Vegas, where Zappos is headquartered, and a thought leader in entrepreneurship and business, starting with the publication of his book, Delivering Happiness.

Tony Hsieh speaks at the closing plenary session of the Clinton Global Initiative America at the Sheridan Downtown Denver, Wednesday morning, June 25, 2014. Photo: Andy Cross/The Denver Post via Getty Images

I don’t recommend high-intensity work on an empty stomach. You may get away with a few times, but mostly you’ll feel like dog poo — no energy, and you can’t push as hard. I also don’t recommend lifting weights fasted. Protein before a workout will increase muscle protein synthesis — the process by which our bodies repair muscle tissue torn by exercise. This is how our muscles grow.

Short version: I started a new six-figure job as a lawyer, only to realize on the very first day that I’d made a big mistake in taking it. I quit immediately — there was no $1,000 or $5,000 offer in it — and the situation motivated me to start a business quickly that could support a family.

Not just the quirkiness for which he was known — a near-billionaire who lived in an Airstream trailer because, as he once explained, he valued experiences over things — but instead, for the 2-word policy Zappos had for new employees.

“Why?” asked Bill Taylor in Harvard Business Review in 2008, when the maximum “offer” was $1,000. “Because if you’re willing to take the company up on The Offer, you obviously don’t have the sense of commitment they are looking for.”

Hsieh sold Zappos to Amazon in 2009, and I suppose the reason that “The Offer” resonated so sharply with me when I first heard about it is because of what I was doing at exactly that time.

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s always concerned about that, and there’s no real way to know. Unless you stop helping them financially, I guess. That’s the only way I could know. Right now, with my current girlfriend, it’s a little different. It’s not something where she gets a monthly check from me every month, I just help her out here and there when, you know, maybe she has to travel to see her mother and she can’t cover her airfare until she gets paid two weeks later so I cover it.

Hsieh twice built companies from the ground up and found big exits: Zappos to Amazon for $1.2 billion, and before that, LinkExchange, which Microsoft acquired for $265 million before Hsieh turned 25.