Heart-Head Rule for Commitments | Generated by AI
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Question: What’s Marc Andreessen’s quote about heart and mind agreeing before you commit?
Answer: Marc’s rule is only to say yes if your head and heart are in it — otherwise you end up saying yes with your head while your gut says no, and get stuck with commitments you resent.
That’s it, roughly — a personal filter he uses for opportunities/meetings, not some formal a16z framework. Cited from a listicle rounding up his rules, not from a16z’s own blog, so treat the exact wording as paraphrased secondhand rather than a verbatim Andreessen quote.
Note this is philosophically the opposite pole from “disagree and commit” (Andy Grove/Bezos) — that one says commit even without agreement, once a decision’s made org-wide. Andreessen’s rule here is about personal commitments (what you say yes to), not team execution after a group decision.
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