Jimmy Wales
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That kind of uncertainty is worse in most cases than making a decision that's slightly suboptimal.
you know, like completely whipsawing back and forth.
So the book is really a lot about that.
Like, what are the principles that you need, you know, in order to build trust?
It's fundamental to relationship.
And in business, it's fundamental to actually getting things done.
And I mean, I think most of us have worked at some point in our life in a workplace environment that was in some ways toxic.
And there was a low amount of trust, both trust between maybe rank and file and the management,
trust between different equals in the company and things like that.
And it's terrible.
I mean, some aspects of grad school were like that, you know, there were, you know, stories about people, you know, in order to answer this question, you needed to find this one research paper.
And one guy hid the book it was in in the library, so nobody else could find it.
And it's like, oh, my God, like, what is this backstabbing nightmare?
Like, we can't tolerate this.
And so
Yeah.
Yeah.
So you want you want healthy culture in order to get anything done.
Yeah, I mean, I think, you know, I think one of the rules, I think is rule number three that I always think is really kind of where I begin in thinking is have a good purpose and have a clear purpose.
So with Wikipedia, it's very simple.