How to kill good things to make room for truly great ones. | by Obi Felten | X, the moonshot factory
This is a talk I gave at the International Women’s Day Women Techmakers conference on March 5, 2016. I’m posting the transcript with slight edits for context and clarity. I work at X, formerly known as Google[x]. We are the team behind self-driving cars, self-flying delivery vehicles, smart glasses, smart contact lenses, energy kites and balloon-powered Internet. We work on solving large problems in the world with technology. But my talk isn’t about X. My talk is about how to kill good things — a good idea, a project or even your current job — to make room for truly great ones. We don’t like killing our own projects because it’s hard — really hard! Two things stand in our way: Fear and inertia. To overcome these, you have to tackle them head on. Newton’s first law of motion states: An object at rest stays at rest and an object in motion stays in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force. The bigger the mass and the faster the object i
This is a talk I gave at the International Women’s Day Women Techmakers conference on March 5, 2016. I’m posting the transcript with slight edits for context and clarity. I work at X, formerly known as Google[x]. We are the team behind self-driving cars, self-flying delivery vehicles, smart glasses, smart contact lenses, energy kites and balloon-powered Internet. We work on solving large problems in the world with technology. But my talk isn’t about X. My talk is about how to kill good things — a good idea, a project or even your current job — to make room for truly great ones. We don’t like k
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