Summary: The author discusses the importance of agency and taste in achieving high-impact work. Successful individuals take accountability for their goals and focus on finding effective solutions, often through data analysis and reflection. Developing a good intuition for impactful projects requires practice and a willingness to learn from experiences.
people’s biggest bottleneck eventually becomes their ability to get leverage—i.e., to find and execute work that has a big impact-per-hour multiplier. (View Highlight)
Without taste, you’re likely to work toward the wrong thing. Without agency, even if you work toward the right thing, you’re likely to get nowhere. (View Highlight)
“most rewrites fail and most people are over-optimistic about how long they will take (View Highlight)
many of the most effective people I’ve worked with also do the most metacognition, i.e., reflecting on their own (and their team’s) work and thought processes, and figuring out how to improve them. (View Highlight)