Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
"You should build this feature" "You should make this small quality of life improvement" "You raised a bunch of money why can't you also X" Focus. Not claiming to be world-class at it. Varun is much better at focus than I am—I get distracted by shiny new things all the time. But ultimately you only have a fixed number of "shots on goal" before you lose momentum (and in other cases, funding). Have to constantly be asking yourself is this the highest priority thing we can work on? And if everything is high priority, then you're not focused. Good clip below on what world-class looks like here (note that Jony doesn't think he is good at it).
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ionspired
@ionspired
let me argue a little bit. I absolutely agree with the focus importance on one hand. on the other hand the context is changing significantly (idea-to-market, product cycles, influencers' influence) and it makes reactiveness, relevance to the trends (think Tiktok algos) being a lot more important than before, if not critical – time will show. mb it will lead to a new typical profession – like a person on team who's purpose is the "distraction" – dig into hot trends and explore everything new and how it can be applied to the project immediately to the long term benefit.
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
Focus implies working on the most important thing. If the market changes and there’s a new important thing, then you switch.
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Robbie
@rrush
That could be my ADHD so doing and studying everything yet has not pulled off one good thing that moons might just be my lack of marketing budget 🖖🚀
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