Brain Food: Obsess Over The Basics
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Brain Food: Obsess Over The Basics
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Figuring it out, again and again
Walking the tightrope of ideals and reality
Sari Azout
Sep 14
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One thing I’ve come to appreciate is that having a vision is not the same as executing it. There is no shortage of ambitious ideas. Time and time again, it is when the rubber of ambition meets the road... See more
Figuring it out, again and again
Walking the tightrope of ideals and reality
Sari Azout
Sep 14
READ IN APP
One thing I’ve come to appreciate is that having a vision is not the same as executing it. There is no shortage of ambitious ideas. Time and time again, it is when the rubber of ambition meets the road... See more
Figuring it out, again and again
Brain Food: Chalkboard Decisions
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Lead with commitment to a mission. It has to go beyond technology (eg: using AI) or making money (eg: Google cloud revenue). It has to be about making positive change in the world, for real people (users, customers) in the real world. Googlers are idealists at heart and their work needs to mean something. They also need to believe that their execu
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Are we idealists or pragmatists? Do we have principles we hold dear, and a vision for the future we want to create? Or are we fumbling along, tinkering, finding what works, and forever allowing contact with reality to rearrange our mental furniture, make a mess on our conceptual floor, and occasionally punch so many holes in the walls that need to
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One thing I do look back on fondly was how incredibly focused we were. Resources and time were so tight that you could feel the weight of all the things you weren’t working on. You had real conviction that the thing you were doing was the most important thing.
To pick a somewhat trivial example, at fireside chats with Mark (the predecessor to the co... See more
To pick a somewhat trivial example, at fireside chats with Mark (the predecessor to the co... See more