On: Bill Nguyen: The Boy In The Bubble

[gwern]

hypomanic?

[kf → gwern]

Yeah, true clinical mania looks a lot like psychosis.

[gwern → kf]

No, I meant that 'hypo' means a lack, and 'hyper' means an excess, so I would expect a 'hypo'-manic CEO to be some sort of depressive and not look like a great candidate for funding and a 'hyper'-manic CEO to be extremely energetic and convincing and voluble and so at an advantage with VCs.

[prodigal_erik → gwern]

Clinically it's used as "not quite mania, but close".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypomania

[gwern → prodigal_erik]

Huh. TIL. Goes to show that understanding Greek or Latin roots doesn't always help you.