← Tobi Lafinhan

Control what you can control

From a team meeting

There's just a lot going on right now, where people are overthinking things or underthinking things, and everybody's just trying to be very scared about what's going on.

The main principle to just keep in mind, I've always echoed in all our calls: make sure you're not sitting on your hands waiting for change to happen, but you're taking control of what you can control. And the things that we can control right now: with the tools that we have access to, just keep building with them.

When the tide shifts, you'll be much better placed than somebody who wasn't experimenting with these tools already. Even if the change is good or the change is bad. I think being prepped for change is the main thing.

Said out loud in a team meeting, 13 February 2026. Trimmed for filler; not rewritten.