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Steve Jobs - "How To Stay Laser Focused"

Name: Steve Jobs - "How To Stay Laser Focused"
Uploaded: 2025-04-30T20:56:11+00:00
Duration: 21 s
Channel: John Wetmore
Description: In this brief excerpt from a YouTube video titled "Steve Jobs – How To Stay Laser Focused," three speakers discuss the essence of focus in product and…

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In this brief excerpt from a YouTube video titled "Steve Jobs – How To Stay Laser Focused," three speakers discuss the essence of focus in product and team strategy. Speaker A emphasizes that true focus is about saying "no" to many ideas so a few can be executed exceptionally well. Speaker B expands on this by likening project selection to choosing the right horse to ride, arguing that careful selection saves massive effort and allows deeper investment in emerging technologies. Speaker C shares a personal perspective, expressing a love for building new products but a reluctance to maintain them, highlighting a common bias toward creation over upkeep. Together, the dialogue underscores the importance of disciplined prioritization, strategic project choice, and the cultural tension between building and maintaining.

When you think about focusing, right, you think, well, focusing is saying yes. No, focusing is about saying no. And we try to focus and do very few things well. And focusing is hard because focusing doesn't mean saying yes, it means saying no. So we say, we decide not to do a lot of things so we can focus on a few handfuls of things and do them well.
The way we've succeeded is by choosing what horses to ride really carefully. If you choose wisely, you can save yourself an enormous amount of work work versus trying to do everything. And you can really put energy into making those new emerging technologies be great on your platform rather than just okay because you're spreading yourself too thin.
Man, I tell my team all the time, I love, I love building stuff. I don't really enjoy the once it's built maintaining it, like to hire people for that stuff. But I love the journey of building, and hopefully one day can be as impactful as that dude.