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The job of the CEO is not to make good decisions. It's to make a small number of decisions, make them slowly, and make them well. Speed is irrelevant if you're going in the wrong direction.
— Jeff Bezos, Amazon Leadership Principles internal talk, reported in 'The Everything Store' by Brad Stone (2013)

2d ago

The big difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is that successful people say no to almost everything.

3mo ago

upstartsmedia.com

Why A Software Startup With $300M In ARR Is Refocusing Its Entire Business

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.

4mo ago

fs.blog

Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

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.

4mo 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.

4mo ago

stratechery.com

Tim Cook’s Impeccable Timing

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.

4mo ago

lennysnewsletter.com

Not all AI agents are created equal

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.

5mo 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.

5mo ago

The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.

5mo ago

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