Learning Grace By editor on January 28, 2018 — 1 min read There is an amazing executive that I interacted with in the 2000s, and he was like the COO of TIVO. A southern guy. He had the most amazing quote for me. I was the junior guy, I was there to take notes. He stopped me in the elevator. The big guys walk out. He said,... More
Copy the Important Stuff By editor on January 28, 2018 — 1 min read If you can copy the Kind bars, you’re going to want to copy the important stuff, like a diverse workforce, a more open-minded, philosophical approach to company building. If it turns out — which I think it will — that that actually drives great outcomes, then all of these young entrepreneurs will just copy it... More
Patience Through Failure By editor on January 28, 2018 — 2 mins read It was product, marketing, operations. I had an amorphous, fucked up, role for a while. The first year was really bad. I didn’t get anything done. I didn’t do that well. It culminated in November of 2008, I remember this so vividly. I was in Thailand for a wedding, and we had just launched Beacon,... More
Balance By editor on January 28, 2018 — 1 min read I liked how stoic [Mark] was. I’m a bursty person. It’s like what I like in my wife: She is a very good balance to my spiky personality. When I’m on, I’m really good. I can land some outlier that’s not on anybody’s mind. For Mark, I just felt really comfortable just being crazy. He... More
Bias By editor on January 28, 2018 — 1 min read That was a perfect example of me expressing my bias. Part of my bias came from my insecurity about not having a grad degree. Part of my bias was just feeling inferior [to people with MBAs], that I’ve felt for huge amounts of time. What I said at the HBS thing was me spouting off,... More
Overdrive By editor on January 28, 2018 — 1 min read When the average human gives up, [the Warriors’ brains] go into fucking overdrive. There’s this next-level burst. It’s that: When things get hard, can you double down? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMotykw0SIk (14:30) More
Worldview By editor on January 28, 2018 — 1 min read I’m not saying my worldview is the best, or right, but it is mine. At the end of the day there are a 150 other fucking guys with their worldview, and they don’t give a shit what you think about their worldview. Why not me? Why not one of you? In my life now, I’m... More
Copy By editor on January 28, 2018 — 1 min read For me, I just copied. A lot of my life is just copying things that I see. There’s not a lot of original thought here. We can all pretend we’re all fucking geniuses. Honestly, be good copiers. It’s the best thing in the world. Be around high-functioning, high-quality people, and just copy the shit that... More
Alignment By editor on January 28, 2018 — 1 min read I’ve always equated what I call alignment to a tree. Alignment in a company is like rings of a tree. So if you cut down a huge redwood, what you notice is there’s many thousands of rings, and that pretty much embodies how a company works, which is we’re at the center. You have the... More
Root Out Poor Behavior Decisively By editor on January 28, 2018 — 2 mins read I think that there’s a couple things. One is like, this first wave of the obvious stuff, I mean, this is a terrible way to describe it, but low-hanging fruit of sexual harassment, maybe we’ve dealt with that. Here’s what’s much more insidious — It’s all of the conscious and unconscious bias. It’s all the... More
