Are your fears giving you terrible advice? | Matt Mochary

If all you do is spend all day is responding to other people's requests, you never actually march towards your own priorities. You need to create priorities and then set aside some amount of time each day that you just work on your own priority.

It's not that you figure out what it is and do more of that, it's that you figure out what it isn't and eliminate that and then naturally, you'll be drawn toward what it is that you love.

With fewer people in the organization, things work better. That's the big realization that most people never discover.

Really, the only answer is just to keep the team super small. That's what WhatsApp did, that's what Instagram did, that's what Linear is doing right now.

Mochary is discussing creating separate C corporations for new product innovation teams within larger companies, where "it" refers to the new product/innovation team.

Why don't you actually just create its own C corp? Why don't you make it so clear that this is its own entity?

What really motivates people is building shit that gets used in the world. People will say, and they'll fight for equity and money, but in the end, that's not what actually motivates them.

Matt Mochary is a CEO coach explaining his technique for making people feel heard during difficult conversations or feedback sessions.

I reflect back what I imagine are the thoughts in your head. If I think you're feeling anger, I sort of think to myself, well, what would anger feel like? I cause myself to feel that anger, then what are the thoughts that appear to me?

What we're really good at is what we love and what we love is often space and time disappear when we do it. Therefore, we actually probably don't even value it because it comes so easily to us.

I have somebody sit with me and they prevent me from doing anything but my top goal. It's like the same idea as a trainer in a gym.