Harley Finkelstein

And now it's up to me to actually go through.

Um, and I think for someone with my personality, with someone with my ambition, that works very well for me.

He's much more German about it.

Um,

Which is funny because he sort of calls it the German, it's like the German thing for him, but it's actually also like the Jewish mother thing for me, which is, you know, you just got 98% on your exam, you go show your mom, and your mom says, great, what happened to the other 2%?

Which actually I've now learned it's actually very much a, at least the way it's been described to me, is that it's actually an immigrant thing, that a lot of immigrant parents are like that.

Like, that's great, but like, what happened here?

How can you do better?

So that's part of it.

The other part of it is just that when he gives me

a compliment it is because i went i went so above and beyond like he basically sets a bar for me of what great looks like and doing my job really well is the expectation knocking out of the park going like resetting what corporate storytelling looks like or how to do you know earnings and

when you do that exceptionally well, that's when he says, that was a great job.

And he's very thoughtful about how he explains, how he gives those, that was really great.

He kind of shows you that thing you did that is so far beyond the expectation of the industry that you were resetting it.

There's this really great thing we talk about, which is, it'd be really great, like I say this a lot, but I adopted from him, which is every person that works at Shopify should be able to go to their

industry conference whatever their category whatever area they're in business and they should give the keynote about how they're doing their job completely different than everybody in the crowd which is like the most global maxima not local maxima thing it is like the local maxima is like like you know you're at the top of the mountain you're doing better than everyone else is doing your job the global maxima which is like toby in a

And that makes it incredibly challenging, but also incredibly rewarding.

There's this thing about life's work.

I think it obviously gets lumped into happiness and contentment and all that sort of stuff also.

We can talk about how to find your life's work, but ultimately the way you continue to do your life's work is when you feel fundamentally that