Becoming a conscious leader: Leading without fear, finding your life’s objective function, and getting better at vision and strategy | John Mark Nickels (Uber, Waymo, DoorDash)

Get clear on your objective function. And one way th that I've gotten clear on is like trying to think about it from future me'cause like Five years from now, I'm not gonna give a shit if I made the presentation slightly better. I'm gonna care a lot about what kind of relationship I have with my daughters. And like that means that the the next action, the next thing I do today and tomorrow.

those will translate into the relationship with her, right? Not to be like morbid, but just again, most of us just aren't really tuned into an awareness that our lives will come to an end. We try to pretend like we're gonna live forever and just not think about it. And the horror of it is that we succeed, right? We mostly manage to just Go live our life and eat ice cream and go to work and go on vacation and do what we do, to me an awareness and mindfulness that our lives will come to an end punctuates reality in a way that requires me to

Rethink. My priorities. Today my guest is J M Nichols. JM has been a product leader at Waymo, DoorDash and Uber.

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