Fewer meetings, more execution

Any second you spend planning is a second you don't spend doing. The biggest waste of time is meetings and status updates. I've never had a status meeting. I've never scheduled a status meeting. Statuses are done async.

I think the biggest waste of time is meetings and status updates. And I think that oftentimes CEOs would say, or leaders would say, 'Hey, we've got increased velocity, therefore let's just add these status meetings and let's add all this process.'

If you respond to emails really fast, you respond to messages really fast, people respond back to you and then there's more to respond to. And if you slow down that little hamster wheel, it slows down.

Don't let [pace] degrade to the pace of your recurring meetings. I often find that pace of organization locks to pace of the calendar.

I hate pairwise conversations. I feel like they're a waste of time. I feel like you could have four conversations with four different people or one conversation with all four people. Everyone has the same context.