The health of an organization’s vision is better measured by its ability to cancel the right projects than to start new ones. Saying yes to a new project is the easy part, what’s hard is making tough & visionary decisions in the service of focus. Superpower if you can do it.

May 12, 2022 · 5:24 PM UTC

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For example, a few years ago we made the painful decision to shut down our robotics project. It was producing great results, but we'd discovered we could move even faster in data-rich virtual domains. Most of that team started working on code, which led to Codex & Copilot.
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Replying to @gdb
In 1997 Steve Jobs said more or less the same thing. youtube.com/watch?v=H8eP99ne…
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But it feels so good to say yes 😉
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fascinating thought