Six-Week Horizons & Compounding Decisions

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and most of them take just much less than that. But six weeks is the most we're willing to think ahead, and then day to day, the six weeks is like where the squirrel is headed, so it's not super clearly defined. It's generally defined, and then we figure it out as we go. We just figure it out as we go on a day-to-day basis. The teams figure it out as they go. I kind of set, or David or someone sets the target generally, not financial targets, but generally, we're headed in this direction with this idea, figure out how to get there on your own. We'll check in when we need to. You ask if you want some help, we're happy to come in. I'll review stuff as we go, but it's a bunch of course correction to get us there. And I find that that is the most honest, real way to get somewhere good, because in general, you know more about things, the closer they are to you.

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So, I don't know what's going to happen five Mondays from now, but well, today's Thursday, so let's just take Friday. Five Fridays from now or tomorrow, I probably have a better idea of what might happen tomorrow than I do five Fridays from now. So, I'll worry about those when I get there. Let me worry about tomorrow. Let me nail tomorrow. Let me get tomorrow right. Let's do the right stuff tomorrow. Let's make the right decisions tomorrow, and then we'll make some more on Monday, and make some more on Tuesday, and make some more on Wednesday. Just make small decisions all the time, and don't put yourself in a place where you're making huge ones you're afraid of, and you can sort of get wherever you want to go for 27 plus years. There's a question that I keep getting asked by different people, — Yeah. — so it must be a popular question, and I'm always perplexed by it.

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They're like, "You seem to have something good going right now. What does success look like — Oh. — five years from now?" So, you hate the question I'm going to ask you. — Yeah. — I'm going to ask what your answer is, and I'm going to tell you what my answer to that question is. — "I don't know" is the answer. I don't care. — So what? — So what? I don't even know five years from now. What's the difference? It's an interesting question because it's a directional question, but I don't care. I don't have an answer. My answer is boring. "Just more of this." — Yeah, sure. Well, exactly. — I think there's... — And that's essentially what it is. — So, here's the thing about those questions. People answer those questions today for who they think they're going to be then. You don't know who you're going to be then. So, it's kind of a silly thing to answer or even to ponder.