Jonathan Swanson

You know, Steve Jobs, he had a team of 10,000 people who are helping him bring the iPhone to life.

But yeah, you shouldn't try to do it all alone.

No, if Steve Jobs can't do it alone or Edison can't do it alone, you shouldn't try to do it alone.

I mean, if Cesar and Napoleon and Lee Kuan Yew needed an assistant, think how much I need it.

Some of the most high-capacity people in the world.

Yeah, delegation goes back to origin or species.

And our brains have this relentless desire to optimize both energy and energy.

and information.

And because of that optimization, the brain has crafted this hierarchy of task distribution, where complex, novel tasks are tackled by our prefrontal cortex, and routine tasks are offloaded to lower and more automated neural structures.

So we like to say that it's not that our brain was merely wired for delegation, but it was wired by delegation.

And it's just built into our brains from the very beginning.

We delegate inside our brains, and now we can delegate between brains.

Well, I'm experimental, so I just like trying things and ripping life up.

I think one of the first things I did after I left my company, Thumbtack, where I had meetings from 8 a.m.

to 10 p.m.

all day long, and I felt like I just didn't have sovereignty over my time.

And so when I left, I said, I'm going to work with no calendar.

zero meetings, if you want to, if you want to talk to me, call me, let's go WhatsApp or voicemail.

And that was one of the most freeing things I've ever done.

It's not something you can always do.