Pritesh

My shower thoughts wandered away from upcoming negotiations and towards interesting rabbit holes.

It's a good reminder that what's lacking in life is not time. It's focus. If you're working on what matters, you can advance leaps and bounds in 8 hours. And if you're just clearing the slog, you can spend a lifetime staying in the same place.

Science fiction is about strange rules, while fantasy is about special people.

Culture is the non-fiction story of an organization. It writes itself.

There

are lots of rewards for heroic saves at work. But heroic saves undermine the desire to build better systems.

A puzzle has well-defined rules and a single solution, and we know when we have reached that solution. Puzzles deliver the satisfaction of a clear-cut task and a correct answer. Even when you can’t find the right answer, you know it exists. Puzzles can be solved; they have answers. But the solutions may be difficult to find.

The best story wins. Not the best idea, or the right idea, or the most rational idea. Just whoever tells a story that catches people’s attention and gets them to nod their heads is the one who tends to be rewarded.

The single most important job of a leader — even if they’re mediocre at everything else — is to make decisions, and to know when and where those decisions need to be made.

Everything looks certain in hindsight, but at the time uncertainty ruled the day.