{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Justin's brain","title":"Don't over-engineer it; just hit the ball (Golf analogy)","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/89441717\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":519,"description":"There's a great quote from a 2020 Hacker News thread:\nSales is a lot like golf. You can make it so complicated as to be impossible, or you can simply walk up and hit the ball. I've been leading and building sales orgs for almost twenty years, and my advice is to walk up and hit the ball.\nI keep coming back to this quote.\nIn software, it's so easy to over-engineer things, to ask \"what if?\", to try to prepare for every eventuality.\nBut more and more, I'm realizing, for most things, you just need to walk up and hit the ball.\n\nChapters:\n\n\nLinks:\n2020 Hacker News thread\nTransistor: podcast hosting and distribution platform\nSavvyCal: scheduling service for booking meetings","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/UqqDv1UJafgztUHPZUZVwjORISRwWDKEaL8iomaxkdA/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS82ZDk1/NzE2MWZlMTEyZjdi/MWI5MjFiYmU3ZjA0/MTMwOS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}