Ryan Holiday

This is the problem that Uber got in before the sort of turnaround, which is like they would make these exceptions for the star performers.

Right.

And what that created was a sort of cultural or sexual harassment was prevalent and that people were saying things that like, by the way, when the when the lawyers were

discovered them in discovery, there was a vulnerability there, right?

Like the decision to go, hey, I'm going to let this person go, even though they drive values to the business because they don't follow the rules or they do X, Y, and Z. That's a really, it's a hard thing to do, but it's also a really powerful thing to do inside the company.

Yeah.

Hey, I thought our value is we only, we only make stuff in the U S but like, here we are, the people who make our boxes doing it cheaper X, Y, and Z is you, you want, like, I'm bringing this contradiction.

It's, it's ultimately your call as the boss, but like, I'm going to present this contradiction to you.

And yeah, if you're a good, a good lesson to learn, I remember I was having to talk to my agent about something.

Uh, and I was like, I was talking to my wife about it.

I was like, I've

what if he gets mad?

You know, what if I think, hey, I think this part of our arrangement's unfair and I want to change it.

And I was like, what if he gets mad?

And she was like, that's such an insight into your childhood that you're concerned about doing something that's right and getting yelled at for it.

She's like, if he doesn't respond well, he shouldn't be your agent anymore.

And like, that's a really bad sign.

And so I went to him and I was like, hey, I don't think this is fair.

And he was like, you're totally right.

Let's fix it.