Turner Caldwell
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first heard Jul 2025
last heard 5 Aug
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the m the mission alignment is definitely kind of like the core piece.
I think the thing that actually causes burnout is churn and like a lack of feeling like you're making progress towards a goal.
And so if people are working towards something and they feel like they are actually like progressing towards it, and you know, if you're mission aligned,
Solving hard problems um can be fun because you're as long as you are like making progress towards that goal.
And so there's a handful of things that can make like work not fun, which is churn can come from like, you know, erratic decision making that kind of like moves teams in different direct directions.
And there's always going to be a little bit of that, especially in startup companies that are moving quick and are being very nimble.
Um but the second is like put politics in companies creates an
insane amount of churn, data silos and kind of hoarding your Legos is what we call it, can create an insane amount of churn.
And when people have to deal with that and aren't able to focus on like, okay, I have a problem that I have to solve, the pathway is clear, the decision is clear, the priorities are clear, they'll, you know, they'll work their butts off to go do it.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
But it but it definitely it it destroys kind of like the excitement.
Um if you have things that are around the team that um
are taking away from like the core mission.
Um, so the people can get excited about like impossible goals.
Um because it's like we're gonna go prove it.
Yeah, it's like it can be done
Um but that's the other thing that Chandler mentioned, which is like if as long as you're setting goals that are um aggressive but are possible, like that has to be like it has to be in the realm of possibility.
Um then you know it doesn't like if you go super, super aggressive on targets um that have no actual technical path towards it towards achieving it, the like that can be demoralizing also.
Um so it's a mix of like making sure that churn is gone uh to the extent
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