Speed is a vanity metric when you lack the infrastructure to sustain the growth. Jonathan Ross survived because he solved a fundamental engineering bottleneck, not because he talked his way into a deal. My own experience building a second brain mirrors this reality. I disagree with the focus on the initial pitch because the real value comes from the technical architecture that allows you to execute once the door opens. You need a system that captures and processes information efficiently before you can scale your output. Without that, you are just selling promises you cannot keep.
I’ll be honest Ruben, a lot of what Jonathan Ross says is fine and he’s infinitely more successful than I am. However, over decades of listening to these leadership non mots, there is a lot of ‘Justifying my world view point of why my style has been successful’ in this interview.
The truth is much more nuanced and the variables and brittle break points of his success or failure balance on pivot points of fate and luck. To then attribute I was successful because Ignored this OR I equate my success to following this historical leadership principle makes for great reading, but has to be balanced with the context of the situations he found himself in, and the mental models and frameworks he carried into each decision point at that time.
Still keep doing the heavy work for us as I love reading your articles even team I disagree with elements of them.
Speed is a vanity metric when you lack the infrastructure to sustain the growth. Jonathan Ross survived because he solved a fundamental engineering bottleneck, not because he talked his way into a deal. My own experience building a second brain mirrors this reality. I disagree with the focus on the initial pitch because the real value comes from the technical architecture that allows you to execute once the door opens. You need a system that captures and processes information efficiently before you can scale your output. Without that, you are just selling promises you cannot keep.
https://cyrilsimonnet.substack.com/p/i-built-a-second-brain-with-claude
I’ll be honest Ruben, a lot of what Jonathan Ross says is fine and he’s infinitely more successful than I am. However, over decades of listening to these leadership non mots, there is a lot of ‘Justifying my world view point of why my style has been successful’ in this interview.
The truth is much more nuanced and the variables and brittle break points of his success or failure balance on pivot points of fate and luck. To then attribute I was successful because Ignored this OR I equate my success to following this historical leadership principle makes for great reading, but has to be balanced with the context of the situations he found himself in, and the mental models and frameworks he carried into each decision point at that time.
Still keep doing the heavy work for us as I love reading your articles even team I disagree with elements of them.