6/12/2023 0 Comments Ben horowitz the hard thingAn engineer might get stuck waiting for a decision or a manager may think she doesn’t have authority to make a critical purchase. Who is it going to be? Bill Campbell is both of those friends.Īn early lesson I learned in my career was that whenever a large organization attempts to do anything, it always comes down to a single person who can delay the entire project. The second kind of friend is somebody you can call when things go horribly wrong-when your life is on the line and you only have one phone call. You need someone who will actually be more excited for you than he would be if it had happened to him. Not a fake excitement veiling envy, but a real excitement. The first kind is one you can call when something good happens, and you need someone who will be excited for you. No matter who you are, you need two kinds of friends in your life. People offer many complex reasons for why Bill rates so highly. Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all. There are no shortcuts to knowledge, especially knowledge gained from personal experience. Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don’t know anything.
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