Jonathan Swanson

I want it to be six to eight people.

I want there to be a variety.

Here's where I go to find party invites.

I go look for people who have this sort of company or these sorts of interests.

You basically create an algorithm or a process the person can follow step by step.

and then they have real guidance for executing.

And then they execute, and then you go back to that process and say, hey, there's three steps in here that we missed that will refine this further.

Let's continue to tweak the algorithm.

People who are kind of engineering minds, this comes very naturally, but for other people, you have to learn how to do it.

Exactly.

There's a, in AI world, there's this concept of context engineering that's become very popular to make the models more performant.

You have to pipe in all the context because the models are very smart, but they don't have context.

And the same is true with delegating to an assistant or otherwise is like,

there's not enough context it's impossible to do it well and so your job as a delegator is to export all the context you have and what's not obvious is that you have a million times more context than you could possibly realize and it's just sitting there and it takes practice to export that and that's why these things compound over time because there's no way to export at all on day one but over the course of compounding for months and years you eventually get there

Part of it is just realizing it's the right trade.

So, you know, does Michael Jordan mow his own lawn?

No, but you know what?

I bet if he did, he'd be effing amazing, right?

And whoever does it is never going to reach his level potential, but he could just be doing something else.

And so it's like...