Get clear on your objective function and one way that I've gotten clear on is like trying to think about it from future me because like five years from now I'm not going to give a shit if I made the presentation slightly better.

I'm going to care a lot about what kind of relationship I have with my daughters.

And like that means that 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 going to 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. J.M. has been a product leader at Weymo, Dordash, and Uber.

He's also an engineering manager at Groupon and before that an equity

trader at Getco. At Uber he built and launched the very first version of Uber Pool and then

went on to lead the team responsible for the infrastructure and algorithms

powering the economic and logistics brain behind Uber's matching and pricing systems.

At Door Dash, he was head of product for Door Dash Platform.

At Weimo, he led product for the commercialization of autonomous of team. This conversation is a unique and beautiful mixture of heart skills, soft skills, tactics, and

emotions.

I won't give away too much about the conversation, but this is a powerful one.

Tears are shed, stories are shared, and I am confident

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