Noah Weiss: uncertainty

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…I'm going to just going to throw comments at as you're going through them, just add to them. I love that this is exactly Amazon's approach of work backwards, working backwards process. At Airbnb, this is actually the main thing Brian want pushed everyone to do is just think about the idealized product of a magical world where this is totally solid and then work backwards from that. Then Paul Graham talks about this, too, just live in the future and build it. I definitely riffed off at least the Paul Graham thing because I remember reading that essay of he thinks everyone thinks that you can get ideas by, I don't know, sitting with their co-founder laying in Dolores Park looking up at the sky and conjuring up the next unicorn or something. Definitely not how that works. You have to actually immerse yourself in the problem space and try to imagine what the future world looks like and then what's missing for people to get to that future state. Yeah. I agree. I also saw a great tweet by [inaudible 01:04:21] the other day about how if you're working at a company with good leaders, they're never going to be sad that your vision is too big and too ambitious. If there's some reality to it that often they want that just like, "Let's go. Let's think bigger. How do we change the way we think about the future of all this stuff?"…

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