you do it why do you do it and what do you eat so let me see if I can take a stab at at answering those three questions uh the first one's really easy to answer how do you do it and thereason it's easy to answer is because I can demonstrate right here how you do it okay you ready watch
And you just say, wait, objective reality will prove me right. Me stab ." And we went so far beyond that.
How much of it is luck? Let me take a stab at that and then I'll turn it over to Lee because I know he wants to talk about risk.
is irrelevant and even counterproductive spam, if you will, wouldn't that condition me not to look at my device? Anyone want to take a stab at this one? Not you, because you've read the book, and can, by the way, can vouch for the book.
And specifically, how would that differ for a startup, as you mentioned, versus, let's say a large organization like Google? Let me take a quick stab at that. For a startup, I think the advice that both of us talk about in the book is, smart scaling
We're going to have, apparently, the Balance Goddess. I'm tempted to try my stab at it first here. I was told very explicitly that I'm not to touch any of the -- back here, but it's very tempting, I have to confess.
path but you're kind of being a bit polite about it right bad work is the Mind numbing soul sucking life denying stab myself in the eye with a pen because the pain doesn't stop type of work right it's bureaucracy it's pointless meetings it's paperwork it's
splat of pleading and contempt. Mengele did not speak so much as stab words and push them elegantly off a balcony. "Your people," he asked, "can still be saved." "See that?" said the reverend.
That's not going to cost you a nickel. If Windows came out with a version called Windows Stab You in the Eyeball With a Fork, I would adopt it.
essentially at this point seven year or six years of wanderings Through This World um it's really sort of a first person book of narrative journalism uh it it it makes stabs at being an idea book here and there um it I also sort of try to be entertaining where I can um but that's the book and um I I will you know talk about it and hopefully you
And in it he talks about-- there's one line that really sticks out in my mind. He says, take your best stab and keep on stabbing. If it's in you it's going to come out.
really people say well I support the troops I want to know what should that really mean and I sat down and someone asked me to write an article about this and I you know I took a stab at it another stab and another stab and I thought I'm a fool what I should do is I should take the email addresses of the 400 or 500 army officers I have and ask
the past are are there certain types of decisions that would be made more wisely by uh the group than by one person Buffy you want to take a stab at that sure you know I mean I think just reflecting back on on our experience um when I was organizing in in California
And so sometimes, it's actually good that I don't know what I'm doing, because I'll draw something and I'll be like, oh hey, I wouldn't have thought of drawing that face if I didn't just take a stab at it. But yeah, it definitely takes a really long time to get the face just right.
built a new conference room. Yay. One of the things that happens here is that most organizations, as a matter of interest by the way, do you want to take a stab at the percentage businesses that get through early struggle? What do you reckon? It's about one in five, about 20%. The IRS and other record keepers will tell you that about two-thirds of all businesses fail in the first three to five years. But from my ex-CPA days, what I can tell you is
So I spent, whatever, 5, 10 years learning how to use a sword, and the one the time in my life I get to stab somebody, I do one of these.
to care without needing to know why." So, I'll stop there, somebody who would want to take a stab in identifying our lovely videos? There'll be a price. Nobody?
you can also, I mean, I find when I do, when I do take stabs at cooking, I mean I'm exaggerating my incompetence, but I can look at a recipe in a cookbook and I can make little tweaks
beyond just text writing and saying, "Well I think this, that, and the other thing." So, it's partially successful, I would say. It's a good stab at it. And I think it's really