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Chapters

people do not value celebrations enough

Maybe when I’m a emperor for life, that might be my title

Strategy tends to be a little longer, a little more Muji Muji

My motto is, “Make new mistakes

That’s a really lovely question

Her outcome was to not worry about money and be joyful with what she was doing

And so, they make them super vague so they can do anything

You’re saying objective

Simple things give you a lot more room to fiddle

They really should be a proper goal

One of the other benefits, which I didn’t bring up about OKRs is that they sc…

Yeah, it means that you’re in the weeds, man

People read, measure what matters

Which one’s your most favorite language it’s been translated into

I would say- [Lenny (00:43:41)]: You could do two tips if that makes it easier

I mean, it’s very easy

Time you’re planning is not the time you’re shipping, and the best is the ene…

You can look stuff up, so why not

Some people do 80%, some people do 0

” Or it’s hot, and so I’m going to figure it out by reading some articles

That’s their role

Go be an engineer or be a designer, work, get to know businesses

I think that book on psychological safety is the bomb

I think that we in tech want everything to be tech and be remote and everythi…

They’re not the big, sexy guys

Key Concepts

• It’s like,
• So, how would we know we were successful?
• That could be a mission. And it’s like,
• That’s the sort of strategic stuff. And then we’re like,
• The simple act of getting together and saying,
• Ah, hand wave, hand wave, 80%.
• Because
• Boom
• Chinese
• Christina
• Christina Wodtke
• Coda
• Companies
• Everybody
• Friday
• Google
• Hey, we’re working on this new thing, what do you think?
• How could this have been a better story?
• How do we fix this problem?
• How long is 10 minutes anyway?
• Intrigue
• Ken Norton
• Launch
• Lenny
• Make
• Make new mistakes.
• Maybe
• Metacritic
• Monday
• Mondays
• Muji Muji
• New Year
• No, no, no, it doesn’t work that way. Give me this pen,
• Nobody
• Objective
• Objectives
• Oh wow. I don’t know how you got to that.
• Oh, this will fix everything that’s wrong with you.
• Okay
• Okay, OKRs don’t work.
• Okay, let’s work on acquisition.
• Okay, what am I going to do to move the ball forward?
• Okay, what does this mean for us?
• Podcast
• Product
• Really
• Reminds
• Simple
• Some
• Sometimes
• Stanford
• Strategy
• Take
• Teresa Torres
• Thank
• The Fearless Organization
• The Overstory
• This isn’t working. We’re doing something else.
• This looks right, but I don’t think this is possible.
• This week I’m going to do this,
• Time
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• Trio
• Walls
• We’re doing OKRs, we’re not doing OKRs
• Well
• Well, our mission is this, or vision…
• What
• What question should I have asked you?
• What was our mission?
• Why are we wasting these resources on this thing?
• Wow, this is not actually accurate, or weird, or not.
• Yahoo
• Yeah
• Yes, I know storytelling is powerful.
• Yes, I will be a product manager.