Chris Williamson

Oh, I guess you were right.

Impossible did mean impossible in that sense.

Or maybe we'll revisit it next year.

Or what made it impossible?

Maybe we can break that down further.

And so it's the George Bernard Shaw quote, like, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Like, he's unreasonable.

The Unreasonable Man.

Yeah, that was one of the things he picked up really early in life.

He read one of those memory trick books with the guys who memorize a whole deck of cards.

And so he's been using memory tricks, which is one of the things of how the hell does he do what he does?

Five companies...

many projects in all of them taking technical reviews.

It'd be hard to remember all these people's names, let alone what they're doing week over week and where the bottlenecks are and all this stuff.

And he practiced those as a kid.

And so I think he still uses memory palaces and some of these tricks, which are one of those things that seems superhuman if you don't know how it works.

And there's a lot of stories of him

One of the ways he builds loyalty with his team, actually, is people are like, holy shit, when he knows a specific technical detail of somebody's project that has a direct report, who has a direct report, and he's like, you're the bottleneck.

What's going on?

And they're like, this, this, and this.