[[Notes]] - Topics: [[Perspective]] - People: [[Tobias Lutke]] - Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prHmUW4JIms --- ## Summary - [[Companies are complex systems. They run on a form of software we call story.]] - [[A lot of what people call business is actually a discipline called systems design]]. - [[Techniques aren’t limited to one discipline; they’re universal methods for solving problems. Understand them, and you can apply them anywhere.]] - [[Life is best lived working hard, solving difficult problems, surrounded by friends.]] - [[The reward for good work is more work]]. ## Notes ### Business as systems - You may have a maker background in discipline like programming or design. However, you can expand your skillsets into the world of business to broaden what you can do, what you can make, and the people you can impact. - [[A lot of what people call business is actually a discipline called systems design]]. ### Company as systems - Making strategic calls is inherently part of building software. Operating a company is no different in that regard. - [[Companies are complex systems. They run on a form of software we call story.]] - The non-deterministic nature of companies can be thought of as a "frustrating" programming environment. The frustration comes from a lack of predictability; a lack of reliability; a lack of control. - "Non-deterministic environments is our bread and butter as programmers". - "Running companies, building companies, is just building things." ### Building things - Building things, completed things, working things, is a skill. One that is almost independent from the craft of development and design - which are disciplines used in the building of things. - [[Building complete things requires the desire to make and the discipline to follow through]]. - Techniques and methods should not be bound to disciplines, but should be understood as general ways to solve problems. With that understanding, you can transfer and apply those perspectives of problem solving to any other medium or discipline. - [[Techniques aren’t limited to one discipline; they’re universal methods for solving problems. Understand them, and you can apply them anywhere.]] - [[Programming is too much fun to stop]]. "It's all building". - [[Creativity is just connecting things]]. - [[Life is best lived working hard, solving difficult problems, surrounded by friends.]] - [[Build the skills in a way that you accomplish the greatest possible tasks]]. - You want to work; build things you care about; then give it away. - Learn to accept both the hate and the love for building things.