Trenton Bricken: belief

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…There's a head strongness but another theme that jumped out was the ability to step back, you were talking about this earlier. The ability to step back from your sunk costs and go in a different direction is in a weird sense the opposite of that, but also a crucial step. I know 21 year olds or 19 year olds who are like “this is not a thing I’ve specialized in” or “I didn’t major in this.” I’m like, “dude, motherfucker, you're 19! You can definitely do this.” Whereas you’re switching in the middle of grad school or something like that. I think it's, “strong ideas loosely held” and being able to just pinball in different directions. The headstrongness I think relates a little bit to the fast feedback loops or agency in so much as I just don't get blocked very often. If I'm trying to write some code and something isn't working, even if it's in another part of the code base, I'll often just go in and fix that thing or at least hack it together to be able to get results. And I've seen other people where they're just like, “help I can't,” and it's,”no, that's not a good enough excuse. Go all the way down.” I've definitely heard people in management type positions talk about the lack of such people, where they will check in on somebody a month after they gave them a test, or a week after they gave them a test, and then ask, “how is it going?” And they say, “well, we need to do this thing, which requires lawyers because it requires talking about this regulation.” And then it’s like, “how's that going?” And they’re like, “we need lawyers.” And I'm like, “why didn't you get lawyers?”…

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