Once or twice a week, I run into teams struggling with OKRs. To me, OKRs are goals. And you know what? Goals are hard. Setting good goals and reflecting/pivoting based on your progress is a mix of skill and environment. What seems odd to me is that companies somehow believe that OKRs, alone, will magically solve the problem of goal setting.
Love this take, John. Goals do take practice—and so does building clever tools to support them.
BTW, I saw your post about the AI tool you vibe coded to generate demo data and marketing copy. Super cool. I run a YouTube channel where I interview builders and product folks about the tools they've hacked together.
Would love to have you on for a quick 30-min chat to show off what you built and the thinking behind it. Let me know if you’re game!
In my view, a goal is the gap between a system's desired state and it's actual state.
Everything else (hierarchies, dependencies, acronyms, logical chains) is ambiguous handwaving.
Love this take, John. Goals do take practice—and so does building clever tools to support them.
BTW, I saw your post about the AI tool you vibe coded to generate demo data and marketing copy. Super cool. I run a YouTube channel where I interview builders and product folks about the tools they've hacked together.
Would love to have you on for a quick 30-min chat to show off what you built and the thinking behind it. Let me know if you’re game!
Cheers,
Amit
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/amit-arora17
Brilliant!