It has been two week weeks since Steven Bartlett 's three-glasses-of-wine-ruined-my-life comments and the results are in: people are getting sick of optimization culture. In a clip from a 2025 episode of the British entrepreneur's "Diary Of A CEO" podcast that resurfaced on May 23, he recounted having his first alcoholic drink for a year. "I had a couple of glasses of wine, didn't get drunk, it ruined three days of my life because of the domino effect that it caused," he said. (Later in the