Chris Williamson

Um, and it's less tolerance.

Like it's, it's less things that can space to show up in the thing.

It was less things that can fall apart if they're one unit instead of two.

So it is part of the process to just revisit and revisit and revisit.

Oh yeah.

His, uh, I think this was originally a bill Lee quote.

Who's a friend of his and entrepreneurship is like eating glass and staring into the abyss.

And the follow-up is like, eventually you start to like the taste of your own blood.

Yeah.

So you better fall in love with solving problems.

Yeah.

It's a very interesting, he didn't originally set out as CEO of Tesla and he didn't, he says he didn't want to become CEO of Tesla.

And he just felt like compelled to do it at a certain point because if he didn't, he felt like the company would have failed.

And the sense of like internalizing responsibility of like the,

outcome of the mission is more important than my desire for comfort or my desire to avoid problems.

As CEO, you are dealing with a distillation of the worst problems in the company, and that's the chewing glass piece.

If you're not going to the hard part, if you're not tackling the hardest thing, then

You know, that denial or that lack of urgency or that willful blindness is going to catch up with you and the company is going to suffer.

And if you're the leader where you direct that attention is where the organization sort of chooses to focus.

The car goes where you look.