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Get better every day, Tobias Lutke CEO Shopify - The Startup CEO show

10 Sept 2024 · 1 min

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A short YouTube interview/monologue (The Startup CEO show) in which the speaker (Tobias Lutke) reflects on personal improvement practices: meticulous record-keeping to detect mistakes, a distinction between finite games (with clear win conditions) and infinite games (ongoing pursuits like education and wisdom), and a personal orientation of being strict about long-term "infinite" goals while being lenient about short-term "finite" outcomes.

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I'm getting quite upset at myself if I make obvious mistakes. I am fairly good at record keeping to figure out if I made mistakes. And so this is sort of a way it's all put together. So it doesn't revolve around goals. It revolves around partly because goals didn't nominate a finite game. Like, there's a place at which point the time the game is won where infinite games, unquantifiable. It's like education, wisdom. It's the larger things, the things that don't have a victory condition. Finite games are usually played in order to level up towards these infinite games. And so I spend a lot more. I'm a lot more set and maniacal about the infinite games, and then I'm very easy on the finite ones along the way.