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book / recommends
“Another book that I recommend a lot is Shaka's book, his first book, Writing My Wrongs. He has a new book that I think is better, which is called How to Be Free. It's not quite out, or maybe it's releasing. It's releasing next month, so I recommend it.”
service / likes
“Well on TV, I really like Slow Horses, which is the show about the MI6 cast-off guys.”
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8 transcript-backed records
01 / evaluation
“And then if you lose confidence, what happens is you hesitate on the next decision. And as we talked about, hesitation is very dangerous because one, it locks up the company, but even worse what happens is if you have senior people working for you, they get very nervous and they feel like they need to jump into that void and make the decision for you.”
02 / evaluation
“The difficult part is the feeling that you have when you have to do it is very, the hard thing of matter a reorg is you're redistributing power, so you're going to have people really fricking mad at you because somebody's losing power if you do it correctly.”
03 / evaluation
“What I was trying to get out in Good Product Manager, Bad Product Manager, was the job is fundamentally a leadership job. And it's a tricky leadership job because nobody is actually reporting to you.”
04 / evaluation
“" And that's the worst thing, because if action is the better choice and that's good. And then if you don't make an explicit decision, then the whole company's going to get nervous because they know that the architecture is whack and you got to fix it.”
05 / evaluation
“Although we will end up making a lot of money with the right policies, so I don't want to seem totally philanthropic on this, but it's more important than that.”
06 / evaluation
“We get everybody in my backyard because was 500 people at the peak, which is why at the stuff I couldn't cook that much, that kind of stuff.”
07 / evaluation
“" Because there's always the story in the press, and I know this from them writing about me or anything, is it's always what's the best narrative not what's true.”
08 / evaluation
“He said, "Ben, the only reason to start a company is because you have an irrational desire to do so, because it's not worth the money.”