# Sriram Krishnan - Marc Andreessen (Highlights)  ## Metadata **Review**:: [readwise.io](https://readwise.io/bookreview/27015003) **Source**:: #from/readwise #from/reader **Zettel**:: #zettel/fleeting **Status**:: #x **Authors**:: [[Sriram Krishnan]] **Full Title**:: Marc Andreessen **Category**:: #articles #readwise/articles **Category Icon**:: 📰 **URL**:: [www.theobservereffect.org](https://www.theobservereffect.org/marc.html) **Host**:: [[www.theobservereffect.org]] **Highlighted**:: [[2023-04-28]] **Created**:: [[2023-04-29]] ## Highlights - We had decided one of the values of the firm is respect for the people we work with. And part of that respect is - we don't drop balls. We respond quickly and we have SLAs on getting back to people in a specific period of time. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gz4w0s1scm821pf2jb2eemzj)) ^517790320 - Apple has this concept they call the directly responsible individual - the D-R-I. For any project, I’ve tried to identify the DRI. Who is the person responsible for delivering the project? ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gz5153e7pf4j13hkcdyx8s52)) ^517825654 - One, about every six months or so I feel overwhelmed. It all starts to kind of get away from me. And so typically about every six months, I'll basically sit down and do a come-to-Jesus with myself. Which is ‘Okay, you've got this great system, but it's becoming overloaded’. And ‘you're saying yes to too many things and are involved in too many things’. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gz518hkp6krhqhwc2j8j8f4r)) ^517825919 - You really have to uplevel and figure out what's important. I usually take a good hour to look at what I've been doing. It’s basically figuring out the threshold for ‘yes’ versus ‘no’. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gz519991cs42y7qvy8jmjmqx)) ^517825935 - “Thinking in Bets” by Annie Duke is one of the best books on this. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gz51fb5z4hxrh9zz7n5e78ew)) ^517828342 #takeaway #further-reading - I basically read things that are either up to this minute or things that are timeless... ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gz51qh7g0thf8wqhx918fdz4)) ^517829237 - And then somebody gives you big things/new areas. I call them “things from the future”. Something is happening in the world. It's only happening in one place. But..wow, it’s something that might end up actually ultimately happening everywhere. I’ll often ask those people who else I can talk to or what I can read. Every once in a while, something nice happens. When I ask what can I read, they say…’*well, there really isn't anything’*. And that's just the best case scenario because that means we might be the first to it. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gz51w9ssbhqgk0kzkd4b5dqg)) ^517830234 - The other book technique is from Chris Dixon. He thinks of chapters in books like blog posts. When he sits down to read, he goes and looks at the table of contents as a set of blog posts, Oh, those two look interesting already? And then you say - okay, I can throw the rest away. I'm not gonna read every post in the blog either, right? I'm only gonna read interesting ones ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gz5224ww9z3bjyr6sxd2qd8j)) ^517831279