Six weeks is all you get in the age of post-processable velocity
TL;DR
Something big has shifted for all of us. I noticed it last week, while preparing for our Axios board meeting. First, there was a discussion around six-month horizons. And I kept thinking: This is pure fantasy — it's impossible to envision our company and our world even a few months from now.
Nauti's Take
The diagnosis lands: twelve month roadmaps are mostly fiction right now, and short cycles are a real advantage for small teams competing against slow incumbents. The limit is that six week thinking also works as an excuse for having no strategy at all, and without a stable foundation it turns into pure reaction.
A workable split is direction on a yearly horizon and execution in weeks. Anyone hiring or investing still needs assumptions that survive longer than six weeks.
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