When you have a single orienting principle with it, and this is what I really like about talking about seasons of life or periods of life, is that it allows you to optimize very, very narrow, but very, very deep on one area. There's a really great insight from Jeff Bezos when he was still at Amazon, both him and Musk had a single ordinating principle that they wrapped everything around. And for Bezos, it was, does this improve the customer experience? Yes. For Musk, it was,. Does this get us closer to Mars? Did this get us close to Mars? That's good for your season. It's not just having to get this grand plan right.

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