Note on Tobi Lütke's Leadership Playbook: First Principles, Infinite Games, and Maximizing Human Potential via Lenny's Podcast

not overfitting for the quantifiable. Everyone competes for everything but it’s highly quantifiable because it’s … It’s fun, it’s like a game.

You tweak a number and 0.1  more is better than 0.1 less. That’s an immediate gratification thing. But I just think the overlap of most valuable things you can do with a product, and for things that happen to be fully quantifiable, it’s like maybe 20%. Which leaves 80% of a value space unaddressable by the people  who will only look at quantifiable things.

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Tobi Lütke's Leadership Playbook: First Principles, Infinite Games, and Maximizing Human Potential

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Sometimes the true goal hasn’t been quantified yet. Beauty, pleasure, love, truth, etc.

It’s the tyranny of the quantifiable.