Blake Smith
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
John Wooden, former coach of UCLA Bruins in the 1960s.
It's fantastic, dude.
It's called Wooden on Leadership.
I highly recommend it to anybody.
Is there a CEO?
Yeah, I guess.
I just finished, or actually I'm in the middle of still reading Ben Horowitz's Hard Thing About Hard Things, so I guess Ben Horowitz.
Is there a favorite online tool that I have right now?
What am I using right now?
I still use Calendly a lot.
I really like Calendly for scheduling meetings and that sort of stuff.
Last night?
Uh, three.
Three.
Uh, I'm 32.
Oh, maybe it's a 20 year, uh, 20 year old self.
Um,
I would say, I wonder if you asked me this a year ago, I maybe said the same thing.
I think it's the importance of like following your curiosity as opposed to even the strategy or the plan, but like to really listen to your curiosity because that thing typically will end up in a good area as opposed to if you're trying to be ambitious or strategic, it actually sometimes works against your curiosity, which I think is less productive in the long run.
Thanks, man.