Rob Walling

And so you can't just stay on the sidelines or go to university or read books and listen to podcasts and expect to have anywhere near the same level of knowledge that you would if you actually did it.

And that's not to discount that knowledge, because as I've just said, I feel like I prepared myself pretty well by listening to a lot of audiobooks.

And there were no podcasts at the time, right?

So it would have been podcasts and audiobooks if it was a few years later.

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Lesson number six is to let the buck stop with you.

So as an electrician, and this was in the late 90s, I was reading blueprints and I was installing circuits.

And frankly, it was often confusing.

The engineer or the cat operator who had, you know,

drawn the blueprints, had made a mistake or they were in a hurry or whatever.

And it was tempting to ask the foreman about every uncertainty.

But what I tried to do instead, coming back to treating executives with respect and treating their time with respect was I would do everything I could to troubleshoot it first, right?