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A Conflict of Visions
“I think the best book I’ve read recently was A Conflict of Visions by Thomas Sowell.”
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Tobi Lütke
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01 / evaluation
Actually, there's a really... So I watched The Last Dance, the Netflix special of Michael Jordan a while ago, of course, but there was one scene where he just, I'm sure this is a super famous story and he just made up an insight that someone told him so that he would then go and just want to destroy them afterwards, which he then of course proceeded to do because it's hard to imagine anyone more exothermic than him.
“Actually, there's a really... So I watched The Last Dance, the Netflix special of Michael Jordan a while ago, of course, but there was one scene where he just, I'm sure this is a super famous story and he just made up an insight that someone told him so that he would then go and just want to destroy them afterwards, which he then of course proceeded to do because it's hard to imagine anyone more exothermic than him.”
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- Tobi Lütke
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- Lenny's Podcast
02 / evaluation
Because I think while a lot of decisions are made independently, we are a product company, we are on a mission, and we want our product to feel like something that a single person made, in the same way how any author tries to write a book that clearly reads that it came from one mind.
“Because I think while a lot of decisions are made independently, we are a product company, we are on a mission, and we want our product to feel like something that a single person made, in the same way how any author tries to write a book that clearly reads that it came from one mind.”
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- Tobi Lütke
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- Lenny's Podcast
03 / evaluation
Literally, there's a foundation model of a child, and you fine-tune it at school, and it just loses the neurons of curiosity because it's actually discouraged to meander into other topics and explore them just because they're interesting.
“Literally, there's a foundation model of a child, and you fine-tune it at school, and it just loses the neurons of curiosity because it's actually discouraged to meander into other topics and explore them just because they're interesting.”
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- Tobi Lütke
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- Lenny's Podcast
04 / evaluation
You would be amazed how many business plans are actually failing Archimedean logic in this way like, "Let's do a good version of this thing that we've already been doing and we will capture 1% of the market," and just like this stuff.
“You would be amazed how many business plans are actually failing Archimedean logic in this way like, "Let's do a good version of this thing that we've already been doing and we will capture 1% of the market," and just like this stuff.”
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- Tobi Lütke
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- Lenny's Podcast
05 / evaluation
Because every single time we’ve made Shopify more approachable, or things that were previously complex and gating for people’s success, every single time we made something significantly simpler, it actually caused more success.
“Because every single time we’ve made Shopify more approachable, or things that were previously complex and gating for people’s success, every single time we made something significantly simpler, it actually caused more success.”
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- Tobi Lütke
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- Conversations with Tyler
06 / evaluation
I think to systematize it and make it stick — changing a culture is very, very difficult, but instances of just giving everyone permission to go for it have also been super successful.
“I think to systematize it and make it stick — changing a culture is very, very difficult, but instances of just giving everyone permission to go for it have also been super successful.”
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- Tobi Lütke
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- Conversations with Tyler
07 / evaluation
I don’t know if you want to talk about company building, but companies are complex adaptive systems, much more than being industry-applied versions of military or slightly more complex organizations of military service.
“I don’t know if you want to talk about company building, but companies are complex adaptive systems, much more than being industry-applied versions of military or slightly more complex organizations of military service.”
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- Tobi Lütke
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- Conversations with Tyler
08 / evaluation
I don’t quite understand why this is not possible to do in so many places in Germany because, again, Germany does have this wonderful appreciation of craftsmanship, which I think is actually underrepresented in software.
“I don’t quite understand why this is not possible to do in so many places in Germany because, again, Germany does have this wonderful appreciation of craftsmanship, which I think is actually underrepresented in software.”
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- Tobi Lütke
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- Conversations with Tyler
09 / evaluation
I think because German school at that time was in love with serializing out answers and trying to fill you up with as many answers as possible and hope that you would be able to apply them to problems you encounter later.
“I think because German school at that time was in love with serializing out answers and trying to fill you up with as many answers as possible and hope that you would be able to apply them to problems you encounter later.”
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- Tobi Lütke
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- Conversations with Tyler
10 / evaluation
” I don’t know if it’s a good idea, but I love that someone is trying this because that seems like a social license to actually talk about stuff that otherwise can’t be talked about and seeing where it leads.
“” I don’t know if it’s a good idea, but I love that someone is trying this because that seems like a social license to actually talk about stuff that otherwise can’t be talked about and seeing where it leads.”
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- Tobi Lütke
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- Conversations with Tyler