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Winston Weinberg

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1528 total appearances

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The Knowledge Project
Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

We've done all of these things.

The Knowledge Project
Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

We've had tons of folks be like, it's over.

The Knowledge Project
Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

Because of that, I just feel very confident in my teams like resilience and their ability to adapt and strive and get through the next problem.

The Knowledge Project
Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

And, you know, I don't like wish this upon the company.

The Knowledge Project
Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

Like I don't wish like that tomorrow there's also like a crazy chasm and we're in a huge amount of trouble.

The Knowledge Project
Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

But I kind of do in the sense of if we get all of those done now, then we'll get better way faster.

The Knowledge Project
Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

Well, I mean, you want to maximize it before it does too much damage to you, right?

The Knowledge Project
Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

So if there are ten things that you're really stressed about, right?

The Knowledge Project
Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

you should probably try to do those early on in the company.

The Knowledge Project
Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

Because if you get really good at them and you, every time you do one of those things, it should reduce your stress, even if you do a bad job.

The Knowledge Project
Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

And it's the same for any sort of decision.

The Knowledge Project
Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

So like firing people, right?

The Knowledge Project
Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

Like that's a stressful thing to do in the beginning.

The Knowledge Project
Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

But the impact of firing someone when you're a 10 person company, right?

The Knowledge Project
Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

It's probably not gonna destroy your company.

The Knowledge Project
Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

If you avoid firing an executive or something like that, that's a huge problem when you're a massive company.

The Knowledge Project
Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

It could kind of implode your company, right?

The Knowledge Project
Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

And so my point of the stress maxing is you want to keep stress maxing because you'll reduce your stress for that thing long term.

The Knowledge Project
Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

Yeah, massively.

The Knowledge Project
Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

I think it's less...