Engineering Leadership•Mar 28, 2025•English
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"Someone who has never worked hard cannot really work smart."
- "The only way to learn how to work smart is to work really hard," and "if you want to find smarter ways to work, you inevitably have to invest a lot of time and effort first."
- "The phrase work smarter, not harder often makes people feel as if failing to find the easy path means they are somehow deficient, which leads many people to get discouraged and say, 'I guess I just can't find the shortcut.'"
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Execution vs. intelligence
- I have never seen someone with truly strong execution who wasn't also smart. Because they execute, they go through trial and error, build the experience they need, and become smart.
- I have never seen someone who was truly smart but lacked execution. Because they are smart, they reduce the difficulty of execution and make action easier.
- Execution and intelligence are not opposites. They are much closer to complementary forces that create a virtuous cycle.
