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182: Building Focused Flywheels, with Nathan Barry

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How to Make a Flywheel That Works

The first mistake that everyone makes is they try to make a flywheel that like serves three or four goals. And it doesn't work. It can only pump water. You're either going to maximize your ability and that's going to be the most important thing in that situation, in that season of your life. But when you try to find the balance, that's where things feel like can get difficult. If you want to become a world class programmer, do all of them in sequence instead of in parallel. Be great at that from when you're 30 or 40 to when you're 50,. When you're done with that, then dive into something other than what you are doing right now

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