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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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Jake Casey
@jakeacasey
This exact idea is why I think "The Goal" was the most important business book I've ever read. It lays the foundation of the systematic process of figuring out *what* you should be focusing on (within the framework of constraints). If you haven't read it please please read it.
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Jake Casey
@jakeacasey
obvious disclaimer: I'm not perfect and definitely focus on the wrong things sometimes, but I'm trying to get better!
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