01:14:35 · Chris Power
[01:14:35] S1: And you were running at twelve, and then you gotta be at eight for a little bit. Again, I think it's down to like what algorithms of the company are running that you're very happy to let run for eight to twelve weeks, and what has to be fixed tomorrow because it's gonna trail in a weird way. And then the the meta game I found honestly is energy management. And what I mean by that is like everyone is... What I find is I can basically work as hard as possible. I think that's a wrong way to think about it. I think it is through all the problems of the business, what are you... What gives you more energy or neutral energy to solve so you can keep going as fast as possible versus what, like, ties you out. And I think it's honestly... This is a very human thing. Like, let's talk about the gym. You talked about a treadmill. Some people, they get on the treadmill, and they can run twenty, thirty, forty, sixty minutes, and they feel great. Some people can lift weights for sixty minutes, and they wanna they wanna do more. Some people, it's the opposite. You know? Yeah. I hate cardio, if but you're sitting in front of a dead lift, I can go all day. And that is a bit like business. Like, I can do complex product management every single day of the week. I've got about three days of high switching cost in me, and then I'm cooked. So I I really do structure the things that I'm working on based on some things I work on for an hour and it burns me the hell out, and I'm like done with the day. Or at least I'm at 50% speed, and that's unique. I think it's the same with your people, I think it's the same with your organization, like what are you doing, like where you kinda at energetically. Not to be woo woo but I I do think this is like a real thing. And honestly like there's a 100 difficult problems to solve in a day. And I think you got... Gotta get really really good at like not taking it personally. So if you're gonna do the hard thing like what what I found actually Sam taught me this which was my number one thing is something goes wrong, I gotta fire someone, you know I gotta do something hard, empathetically difficult, let's call it that. And I think your gut instinct is write it down, schedule it for Thursday, and you blow the whole week. The kind of...
01:16:57 · Chris Power
It seems flippant at the time, but like flicking someone email being like, hey, we gotta talk tomorrow. It's about this topic. No big deal, and it's in the calendar. You remove... Like as soon as you find problem, you gotta start actioning it, and I think your life gets a lot easier. So my main my main thing on this velocity thing is is effectively like, if you're the type of person that puts things to a side because they're emotionally painful or they're difficult, then for some people this is engineering, some people this is HR stuff, some people this is you know, they don't wanna tell the CFO they spend too much money, whatever it is. Kinda just do it in two seconds as soon as you see it and don't think about it. I will go to extensive like working until midnight, drafting everything, and leaving it all in drafts. So the only thing I have to do in the morning is send all the hard stuff out of drafts. It works. So that's that's that's some of the things I found of like keeping up velocity where like how much pain can you bear in a day. You kinda gotta trick yourself into like, well, you know, Ty, you're you're a lovely guy, but I I don't think we're gonna give you an internship. Right? If I stew on that and like I tell you on Friday, like I'm probably gonna reschedule a meeting. If I flick you a quick note saying, hey man, like, not sure not sure if we're gonna give you a return offer, let's chat about it tomorrow, and I cc someone and say, let's make sure it's on the calendar at 9PM, I I can't avoid it. So there's there's a lot of stuff like that where you you gotta really know where you're at. You know?
01:18:39 · Ty Morse, Chris Power
[01:18:39] S0: Just pulling the hard decisions. [01:18:41] S1: And just do it. Yeah. And do it kindly, but just do it.