Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions
The Knowledge Project
Shane Parrish
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🗓️ 12 May 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | the next year or two years are basically going to define the companies that are successful for the next decade probably, right? |
| 0:07.0 | If not more. |
| 0:08.0 | I want to double-click on this massive 200-page, 400-page Google document that you have. |
| 0:17.0 | How would you describe that to somebody and how do you use it? |
| 0:20.0 | So basically, I mean, I can break down the whole document. So at the top, it basically has like the couple things that I want to remember, right? You know, kind of like motivational things. Some of the ones that I care about the most are prioritization. Like, this is something I think people have a really hard time with is every, you know, like three to six months, |
| 0:37.8 | you have to completely redo how you do prioritization as a leader, I think. And if you don't, |
| 0:43.2 | you're really going to start messing things up. And then it has the top three documents that I care |
| 0:47.7 | about tracking. And so, you know, if I'm concerned about a certain part of the org, then I'll have, |
| 0:53.5 | you know, like a revenue tracker. If certain part of the org, then it will have, you know, like, a revenue tracker. |
| 0:55.3 | If I'm super concerned about, like, post sales or we need to do much better, like, customer service on the back of things like that, it'll have a document there that has, like, a bunch of stats on that, right? |
| 1:05.2 | And then under that, it'll have, what are the three goals for the quarter? |
| 1:09.0 | And almost always, it's usually's usually like one higher uh like |
| 1:14.6 | one product feature i mean we ship now we're getting to the point we're shipping like four new products |
| 1:21.1 | every quarter um which is awesome but you know the one i care about the most or i need to focus on the |
| 1:26.8 | most and then like one major area of the company I need to fix. And then after that, it will have my daily list. And I think the thing that's good about it, like all of the company dashboard stuff and motivation, like, I think everyone has a version of that. The thing that I think is actually good is every day I rank everything I need to do. And so it's |
| 1:45.4 | daily and then I refresh it and then I cross them out. And the re-ranking is, I think, really important. |
| 1:50.8 | Because what I've found is the more times I click into that doc that's called the list and I re-rank |
| 1:55.7 | something, the more I think about what I'm doing, like meta thought about my thoughts. And that is really good. |
| 2:04.1 | That's when I'm prioritizing the best, by far. That's when my schedule looks the best. That's when I'm |
| 2:08.2 | performing the best, is how many times do I click in that doc during the day? Because it will make me |
| 2:12.9 | reorg something, put something in first place in bold, and ignore everything else. So it's more of a prioritization, like, document. What do you say no to? Most things. And I think an increasing amount of things as the company goes on. I used to say no to almost nothing. What's your inner monologue when you're sort of looking at something and you're trying to decide, does this make my list? |
| 2:35.4 | Yeah. |
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