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.

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So, yeah, I'm with you, which is like this. — I feel... — This is the answer, basically. — I've read all your books. I've listened to almost all your episodes. We've shared a bunch of meals together. — Yeah. — And I never even knew that you just did the day thing, too, because I was like, I try to make a good 24 hours, and then I'm like, "Oh, I like this day. — Yeah — So, I'll do it again tomorrow." — Yeah. — And I had this line that I just said by accident. I was like, "Well, all a great life is is just a string of great days." — Thank you. Of course — So, all I need to focus on is just, let me make a great day. And I told you last night, the way I think about, very similar to what you're doing or what I'm doing, is I'm just laying bricks. — That's it. — And today, I'm making a podcast, and tomorrow I'll make another one, and a few days later I'll make another one and then I'll let the score take care of itself because I just like doing this, and I do it the way I want to do it,

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— Yes. — and I want to make a great product. — Yes. — And so my answer to that question is just like "This." — "This." — Like, five years from now, I just want to be making more podcasts. I know I'm going to be — Yes. — reading books forever. — Yeah. — That's the only unbroken habit I've ever had in my entire life, over 30-something years. I can't stop reading, so I'm going to be reading books. — So that's what my other podcast is about — Yeah. — and I like talking to smart, interesting people that do great shit. — Yeah. — And I don't think I'm ever going to stop doing that, so that's what this is. — Yeah, great answer. And if one day you decide you don't want to do this anymore, then you just change. — That's where me and you start to separate a little bit. — I don't know, I said, "if." There might be a time. — And I'll jump off a cliff. I'd be very disappointed. — Maybe that would be the thing, you start doing, is jumping off cliffs. I don't know. Well, with parachutes, hopefully. But, I mean... — I'd be very disappointed in myself. You might find another interest in your life. Something Jeff Bezos told me, which I've always kept close at heart