The Warrior Poet

Organizations tend to value displaying coordination than truly being coordinated. Operating at world-class levels demands trust, mission orientation, clear division of responsibility, direct communication, and lack of BS.

Contrast that with inefficient organizations, which prize meetings, trackers, asking permission, and slide decks to executives who are detached from the details.

EXPLICIT EPISODE: If you have kids in the car, we hope you’ll choose another.

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notes

• Jonathan Richman, father of punk
  • in the classic Something About Mary 
  • "Tandem Jump" (Spotify)
  • on Conan O'Brien
    • “Silent Treatment” (YouTube)
    • “I was dancing in the lesbian bar”  (YouTube)
• Merrill's Marauders (Wikipedia)
  • The 1945 movie Objective, Burma! 

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Party in the back: Four desserts that should exist in this world | "The Pitbull Option"

Business in the front: It's tough balancing when to work on setting goals and planning vs. just executing with your head down like a bull. If you plan too much, you miss out on serendipitous relationships and opportunities. You sacrifice learning in favor of process.

Meanwhile, if you just execute all the time, you find yourself in situations where you can't win -- or where your upside is severely limited.

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It is fashionable to celebrate the idea that leaders can be quiet, unassuming, and uninspiring. Sri has a different take.

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notes

• Music video for "She Don't Use Jelly" by the Flaming Lips
• Jack Black sings "She Don't Use Jelly" (Youtube)
• The Dancing Wu Li Masters by Gary Zukav (a physics book)
• Steve Jobs' rhetoric: post on study from Warwick Business School

Intro and/or outro music in most episodes is by Paul Sridhar ( Spotify ). 

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Management is usually obsessed with things it can measure -- and rightly so. But this can go too far. One example is focusing too much on hard skills like coding, data analysis, or design skills. While these are important, they are generally learnable. Often they are a commodity. And they are less important as one advances in her career. 

More importantly, failure to deliver results usually has little to do with a skills gap. More often it has to do with the beliefs and behaviors of the individual. Even when improvement is indeed needed in a certain functional area, the path to repairing the gap often turns the leader into more of a therapist than subject matter expert.

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notes

• Amazon Leadership Principles

Intro and/or outro music in most episodes is by Paul Sridhar ( Spotify ). 

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Sri discusses an overlooked Godfather character and why companies get fat.

Innovative companies get caught in a no man's land, i.e. halfway, between innovation and collection of innovation 'rents.' And agile process can give the impression that true innovation is happening even though startups operate very differently than what are considered successful companies.

Sri adds his own explanations -- and what to do about it in your own business -- to Clay Christensen's classic Innovator's Dilemma.

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notes

• Wired article on Innovator's Dilemma
• "How Will You Measure Your Life?" -- TED talk by Clay Christensen (Youtube)
• Anything You Want by Derek Sivers (Audible/Amazon)

Intro and/or outro music in most episodes is by Paul Sridhar ( Spotify ). 

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How a project-based focus can transform your work and life

notes

• Related article from Sri: "When Will We Escape the Prison of Work" (Medium)

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This is not a political podcast. Sri’s been “clean” from politics for years. But he takes a break to explain why he's not voting in the imminent election. Plus, curated covers of one of the best pop-rock songs of the 90s.

EXPLICIT EPISODE: If you have kids in the car, we hope you’ll choose another.

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notes

• Academic paper: What is a free radical? (link)
• Rocked reviews the New Radicals album Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too  [sic]  on Youtube. (Leave a comment, and tell him we sent you :) 
• The classic 90s song 'You Get What You Give' by New Radicals:
  • That iconic video in the mall 
  • The covers in order as they appeared in this episode (all on Youtube): 
    • by Press Play, a live wedding band in the UK
    • by Keeton
    • by Grace Grundy 
    • by Sonja Midtune and Katie Ferrara 
• Music Discovery Club reviews the album with songwriter Matt Farley. One of them *totally* disagrees with me on the title track (my video link starts when they discuss this song). 

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Sri discusses what to do with your life with Charlie Munger and Temple of the Dog.

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notes

• The Psychology of Human Misjudgment, by Charlie Munger
• Ayo, the author: How to Decide What to Do With Your Life 
• Reagan - A Time For Choosing - YouTube
• “Hunger Strike” cover - Temple of the Dog performed by Steve Hall - YouTube

Intro and/or outro music in most episodes is by Paul Sridhar ( Spotify ). 

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Intro and/or outro music in most episodes is by Paul Sridhar. 🎧

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Tired of running through brick walls? There may be a better way. Sri discusses when to exercise "tactical patience" and why WALL-E is terribly overrated.

EXPLICIT EPISODE: If you have kids in the car, we hope you’ll choose another.

Connect with Sri on Instagram: @sri_the_warrior_poet  + @sri_actually 

notes

• Cover of the Wallflowers' "Sixth Avenue Heartache" is by von Bruecken (Youtube) 

Intro and/or outro music in most episodes is by Paul Sridhar ( Spotify ). 

Disclaimer: Any audio clips are included with every intent and steps taken to abide by Fair Use and serve the purpose(s) of illustration, education, augmentation, or promotion of source content.

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Intro and/or outro music in most episodes is by Paul Sridhar. 🎧

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How do you know when you should stop analyzing and start executing? This is a hard problem, perhaps a philosophical one. Sri takes a stab with help from Canada. 

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Intro and/or outro music in most episodes is by Paul Sridhar. 🎧

Disclaimer: Any audio clips are included with every intent and steps taken to abide by Fair Use and serve the purpose(s) of illustration, education, augmentation, or promotion of source content.