#136 Complexity & Complicatedness - Sam Spurlin on playing hockey, why he quit teaching, studying at Claremont, leaving a PhD program, working pro bono too start his career, complicated vs complex systems, how to deal with ego in organizations, remote work failures, podcasting with his brother, and the importance of a retrospective meeting
The Pathless Path with Paul Millerd
Are You Trying to Get Good at One Thing?
I think I've enjoyed working on my own because I am evil to balance all the things. There are people that are just so obsessed with crushing it and getting enormous wealth in short amounts of time. It's always them who are like, you need to focus,. You need to work on one thing. But over and over again, I'm just doing a bunch of random stuff. We see somebody like, wow, they're writing a lot, but they're often doing other things. They might be working on other things that we might not label as work.
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