Love seeing a post just for this side of the site. I always felt like there wasn't enough Tynan on the message boards so everyone was just running around. 

hi, friend!

Always tough when you have to choose between making love and making awesome shit (often, you can do both at once).

Cheers on knocking SETT out of the park for the next few months. When that slows down, we'd better see posts about you adventuring with dream girls.

Be careful about burnout, Tynan! If you are working 100% of the time, you are building up an emotional and physical debt that may lead to poor health, poor judgment, and eventually bad code. If you haven't done any read about the subject of burnout, I suggest you do before you decide to work without any breaks!

I've been succesful with the OKCupid method here:
http://www.reddit.com/r/OkCupid/comments/p6rqd/iama_guy_who_has_had_great_success_on_okcupid/
http://www.reddit.com/r/OkCupid/comments/jfv7g/my_okc_strategy_or_how_i_hooked_up_with_3_women/

But I stopped because of free time and the lower cost-benefit that comes out of pickup in general.  And the free time part was me going on a date every night for 2 weeks straight, in the peninsula.   The bad thing about it was I couldn't schedule or plan anything, since I had to block out the entire evening tentatively. 

You do get girls who've gained a bunch of weight, but it saves you from the initial stage of approaching a girl to start a date in the first place and wasting time on girls who weren't that interested in you.  Since your schedule is really flexible, you probably wont mind just walking away from someone who lied or flaked and just go back to work.  Hell you can work while your waiting for your date to show up, park nearby and do the same date and escalation steps over and over and over again. Who knew living in an RV can make your logistics work really well :P Switching from work mode to date mode so suddenly isn't that great for dating although.

As Paul Graham would say, you're essentially fitting a lifetime of work into a few years. Hard to do much else.

One issue I always had whether I was really trying to do pickup or coding/business was being able to switch between the two. If I had spent 5 days focused only on business, I felt like shit going out and kept thinking of all the work I could of gotten done. Likewise, if I was in a social period, every girl I saw was a possible approach that I could/should of done.

Hey man,

I understand your decision, and admire the fact that whenever you do something, you go all-out to do it. I recognize that same tendency in my own character, which has its advantages, but also has its drawbacks.

The major drawback I've found is that I tend to get so absorbed in something, that I neglect other areas of my life.

This leads me to the question: Isn't there a midway opportunity for you?

How about something like this:
- You keep focusing mainly on SETT, but instead of 100% of your time, do this 80% of your time.
- Take one day a week totally of from working on SETT, and fill it with whatever you want
- Take a bit of time each day of to do something physical, something social and something spiritual (exercising, going to some meeting, meditating).

This way, your main focus stays on SETT and that's where you're developing yourself. But in the meantime, you're spending time in all important dimensions of your life. This helps you to renew yourself, giving you more fuel to work on SETT. The major advantage is that you don't have the feeling that any areas of your life (social life, interactions with women) are atrophying.. You're still developing yourself in the main area of your life (SETT), but will keep the rest at base level, thus you get the reassurance that it's taken care of, and don't feel down about not spending time developing yourself in pickup. 

For me, this type of approach really works. Maybe something similar would work for you as well.

Full-heartedly agree, Tynan. The pick-up posts are awesome, but I think building a successful tech company is the obvious course of action right now. ;)