We were in a really great place as a business. But the cost of spending time on things that aren't important, or that you believe don't have a future, is immense.
why judgment becomes more valuable as routine work gets automated, and how to build the prioritization muscle required to move faster, stay focused, and make better decisions when everything is changing.
1w ago
The best business decision is often the one you don't make. Most of life's errors come from doing too much, not too little. Your job is to say no to a thousand good ideas so you can say yes to the one that matters.
We believe in saying no to thousands of projects so that we can really focus on the few that are truly important and meaningful to us. We believe in deep collaboration and cross-pollination of our groups, which allow us to innovate in a way that others cannot.
The problem isn't that they lack ideas; it's that they try to prioritize fundamentally different kinds of systems as if they were the same thing. Treating architecturally different products as if they're in the same category makes effective prioritization nearly impossible.
1mo ago
The difference between a business that's working and one that isn't is that the working one has solved the hard problem, and the non-working one hasn't. Most people spend all their time on easy problems.
1mo ago
The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.
1mo ago
Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.
