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Jake Muise

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“It gives them the ability to have hard conversations when somebody rolls in a little bit late, which is already unacceptable. But if they don't genuinely apologize Somebody gets to come to them and say, like, one of our questions is about being genuine about your apologies if you've made mistakes and we're allowed to make mistakes here. We make a lot. But like you come in and being like, oh, sorry guys, don't do that next time and it will be better. So it's outside of me, it's given everybody else framework to have uncomfortable conversations and or celebrate people, right?”
2023-06-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #678: Jake Muise — The Relentless Pursuit of Innovation, Quality, and Meaning · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Take your hood off and make sure you're looking at the person talking, you're gonna get a better score. We like you, we want to keep you around.”
2023-06-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #678: Jake Muise — The Relentless Pursuit of Innovation, Quality, and Meaning · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Want to give credit where it's like, dude, the book, the ideal team player, which is what a lot of the questions aren't based on it, but this idea that the original name humble hungry smart is from that book. And so when somebody comes in, they have to read that book and it gives them the base principles of what we're talking about. And then we basically design the questions. And yeah, it's been incredible. You get young 25 year olds that come in and their first couple of weeks. They're sitting in a meeting and they're hunched over and like they got their hood on. And typically that's a hard conversation to have with somebody to say like, I need you to sit up, take your hood off, be an active listener because it's an uncomfortable thing to talk to somebody about their body language. And you get to do that immediately because the team has framework and language to say like, hey, listen, brother, in three weeks, you're going to get graded. One of those things is body language. And if you just sit up in the meeting.”
2023-06-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #678: Jake Muise — The Relentless Pursuit of Innovation, Quality, and Meaning · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“In this camp, and you see these guys with their a lot of them will tape their score up above their bed and they'll like look at it in the morning and say like I was a B minus on this thing. I need to bring more consistent energy every night. Like we've got guys that go up and down and up and down and they're like, okay, I'm going to try and be more consistent. Like they know what they're working on.”
2023-06-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #678: Jake Muise — The Relentless Pursuit of Innovation, Quality, and Meaning · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Reward or compensate that person for being an extraordinary individual that was making their whole team better because it didn't fit into what the classic hard skills define as like they're a great shooter or they're a great driver or one of these different things and every single one of those a plus people are most highly skilled people as well they just when you operate with a certain level of humility you are more willing to learn and you learn faster and every single person that's come through our program that was like a b minus or a c that was like highly skilled and made the choice not to get better at these like what i very much consider skills just weeded themselves out it's been really cool to see people grow and like”
2023-06-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #678: Jake Muise — The Relentless Pursuit of Innovation, Quality, and Meaning · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“They're in their first six months of employment and they get two A's or A pluses an award, we give them a raise based on that contribution. And then we celebrate with the team like Nao was an A this last quarter. We make sure the team knows the contribution that they're having. And it's already, what's so interesting. They already all know. But to not have framework to reward them for being amazing people has always been this fuzzy place for me where I couldn't”
2023-06-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #678: Jake Muise — The Relentless Pursuit of Innovation, Quality, and Meaning · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, so they get it's graded one through seven. We just did it because it was seven days of the week and we talk about being at excellent every day. So it's one through seven, and then we add up all the scores, which is 126 total, and they get a percentage. So if they're an 87, we give them a B.”
2023-06-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #678: Jake Muise — The Relentless Pursuit of Innovation, Quality, and Meaning · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Again, like I'm just a system builder, and by no means is it perfect. But I've heard lots of people speak to how important these different personality traits are and how they reward them. And more importantly than the C or the A's, being able to say to somebody, this incredible combination of like humility, work ethic, and emotional intelligence is making your whole team better. And your whole team is telling you your extraordinary ethic things, being able to reward and compensate somebody for that and have a measure to do so.”
2023-06-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #678: Jake Muise — The Relentless Pursuit of Innovation, Quality, and Meaning · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Review point, it's the average. Yeah, got it. So the C average, it's been amazing to see that system work. I've let go several people that were seized that I would have never let go. I wouldn't have known to let them go, like, wouldn't have known that that was the impact they were having on the team at large. It just would have never come out.”
2023-06-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #678: Jake Muise — The Relentless Pursuit of Innovation, Quality, and Meaning · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“On your back, you crumpled into an orgami. You're a B minus, and then we celebrate first some of the categories that they're doing really well in, like some of the categories that point to professionalism or energy or all these different things. We celebrate right away because each one of the 24 segments have different scores within them that have been average throughout their team. And then we address the ones that they're like a C in”
2023-06-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #678: Jake Muise — The Relentless Pursuit of Innovation, Quality, and Meaning · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But it was amazing to see what happened we built this system because we knew we had to go from like eight people to five in a really short period of time to hit our mission goals about a year and a half ago. And I had made poor hiring decisions in the past and they were mostly personality based or they were that person was operating amazing when I was around. But the minute I left, they turned into a different person. And then there's this he said she said game. This completely erases all of that because it's anonymous team scoring and the manager doesn't have a unweighted vote on whether that person stays around. And what ended up happening is that HHS program started attracting people. They started hearing about This accountability process to ensure”
2023-06-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #678: Jake Muise — The Relentless Pursuit of Innovation, Quality, and Meaning · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, the first time we did it with a large enough team that I included myself in it because we were just so small early on. It was like, I think like the third iteration, I was like, I need to be a part of this. And I got all of the feedback back. I was just like, oh my. But if we really want to build extraordinary teams, like I realized my approach to some of our conversations had to be so much better and nuanced to make them better. It wasn't the right approach. And you learn all of this. You end up reading this thing like Braille after doing it. I've done it like hundreds of times now. Yeah.”
2023-06-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #678: Jake Muise — The Relentless Pursuit of Innovation, Quality, and Meaning · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It was the measurement was wrong, Sick or Swim. No, you're getting evaluated by your peers on your personality and the value it's bringing to your team.”
2023-06-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #678: Jake Muise — The Relentless Pursuit of Innovation, Quality, and Meaning · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“A lot of people Here's the thing it's been such an amazing exercise with lots of iterations, right? The first three iterations, I made so many grown men cry and I felt so bad.”
2023-06-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #678: Jake Muise — The Relentless Pursuit of Innovation, Quality, and Meaning · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And it's amazing to watch somebody that really wants to be there because they find purpose and they really love the schedule and they know the impact that they're having to our community have to make the decision to be better for their teammate every night, to be like celebrating that person's growth, even though it's potentially coming at the cost of something that they enjoy. There's these”
2023-06-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #678: Jake Muise — The Relentless Pursuit of Innovation, Quality, and Meaning · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, it's me and like the two or three other harvest managers got it Great example. One of the questions we ask talks about are they genuinely happy to see their teammates succeeding? Because safety is such an important part of what we do. When we bring somebody in that's more talented, we will just like a sports team moves the best people into the best positions. We immediately move people around positions based on their skill sets. So somebody has to be genuinely happy to train somebody that may replace them in a role that they may enjoy more.”
2023-06-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #678: Jake Muise — The Relentless Pursuit of Innovation, Quality, and Meaning · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's been so amazing to see the mistakes I make in when we're hiring new people or moving people around like a great example is I moved a couple people from a field position into a management position. And then all of a sudden their work ethic score started coming down. And it wasn't because they weren't working any harder. It was I didn't do a good job defining to the team what their new responsibilities were. So they saw them sitting on a computer and doing these things. And they're like, well, they're not in the field helping us. And so it's just this amazing quarterly exercise that just pulls out all of the tension within your teams and creates framework for people to address those tensions. And then ultimately what's amazing is to watch people grow.”
2023-06-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #678: Jake Muise — The Relentless Pursuit of Innovation, Quality, and Meaning · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's just one person. It always ends up being like a great average and it always ends up being a great measure of that person. And it's been this extraordinary filter for hiring. Hassle is the wrong word. But when we figured out how to use that system, we now grade every person at their first month. We grade every single person quarterly, including me. Every single person gets graded. And there's questions on there like, do they try or ask to do more than is required of them every day?”
2023-06-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #678: Jake Muise — The Relentless Pursuit of Innovation, Quality, and Meaning · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, so we call them tryouts. But when somebody comes to try out with us, which means we give them a month, we hire them on, but we call them a tryout. And at the end of that tryout, which is typically a one-month period, they get graded by their entire team. And they know it's this like really tense moment where”
2023-06-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #678: Jake Muise — The Relentless Pursuit of Innovation, Quality, and Meaning · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So we set that in the interview. They have to agree to this system coming in. They're evaluated by their entire team, including them doing a self-eval, which is a part of the overall score. They get to like grade themselves.”
2023-06-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #678: Jake Muise — The Relentless Pursuit of Innovation, Quality, and Meaning · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I remember a guy that we were going to hire that was on a brilliant electrical engineer. He wanted to quit his job. Come work with us because he heard about the seven and seven schedule and thought it'd be the best thing ever. And then he read it and he didn't call me back. I really wanted to hire him. And I called him back and I said, any reason you didn't call me back? He's like, I have terrible body language and I'm not willing to quit my job and take the chance within the first month that I get fired for bad body language because we score them if you're an A We celebrate and figure out a way for you to reward you. If you're a B, we like find immediate improvements that you need to make within some of these categories. And if you're a C, we let you go on the spot. No questions ask.”
2023-06-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #678: Jake Muise — The Relentless Pursuit of Innovation, Quality, and Meaning · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Humility, yeah. So we created essentially a scorecard. It has six questions per category, so six for humility, six for work ethics, six for emotional intelligence, questions like, do the energy they bring every night, is it consistent as in it positive? So we talk about body language and emotional intelligence and all these different things within these questions. And I'm happy to provide this thing. And we use it in three ways. give it to the person on the second interview when we're hiring somebody. So we say, here's the HHS system. This is the only thing you're accountable to in your first month. And two things happen. They read it and they go, or actually they just don't call back. And I've made a ton of hiring mistakes in the past where you get past this honeymoon phase and people turn into grouches. And it's just there's people's personalities involved.”
2023-06-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #678: Jake Muise — The Relentless Pursuit of Innovation, Quality, and Meaning · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And it was the Canadian. Yeah. Yeah. And it's largely based on a book that Patrick Lencioni wrote called The Ideal Team Player. And it is a peer to peer. Evaluation system that measures humility, work, ethic, and emotional intelligence. It became so important for us to have the right people, the biggest risk we have every single night is safety. And it became so critically important to have the right people and the right personalities that we had to build a system to measure those personalities.”
2023-06-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #678: Jake Muise — The Relentless Pursuit of Innovation, Quality, and Meaning · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I've never been or had a hard time talking hard conversations. So I would talk to people about tone and approaches and different words they could use, like reminder instead of like get this thing done, like we really focused on individual language. And then we basically built a language of harvesting. So we have all of these keywords. So we have all these keywords that we use so people don't get confused with what's going on. So we've created kind of our own harvest language that allows people not to get confused when we're going really fast. And then ultimately we built a system called HHS, which stands for Humble Hunger Smart and is largely based on.”
2023-06-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #678: Jake Muise — The Relentless Pursuit of Innovation, Quality, and Meaning · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Great people arding being there to train great people really, really goes a long way. And we can talk about kind of that system we built later if you want, but the Communication and people being patient is probably the most important thing. You have to imagine you're doing almost everything through radios, so you sound like Kermit the Frog all night long and you only catch half of it sometimes, but you're moving really fast and the expectation is like you keep moving fast. And so somebody has to be patient enough when like, oh, I didn't get that message or I didn't know what's like communication is so key when you can't see body language. You can't hear properly. And everybody's operating out of a headlamp. So you have this little 10 degree view of what you can see through light. And I'm sure it's the most critical thing in like a lot of businesses. But when you're operating like that at night, it just becomes this amplified skill that if you don't have, we just get on it so fast.”
2023-06-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #678: Jake Muise — The Relentless Pursuit of Innovation, Quality, and Meaning · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“What? Like you do that in three minutes, or it's not like you were not going to get back in time. So it's always fun to sit in that seat, and we have these very specialized UCVs that are essentially impossible to tip over, but it is so fun to watch these amazing local guys develop all these incredible skill sets. And every morning the sun comes up and everybody's just like grinning ear to ear. It's very much feels like a sports team. And obviously with my history, I run it kind of like a sports team in the coach and just an amazing experience to do one of these hunts. Yeah.”
2023-06-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #678: Jake Muise — The Relentless Pursuit of Innovation, Quality, and Meaning · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And the processing teams. So it's just this intricate dance. And this is all at night on, this is not paved roads. These are like rough off-road scenarios. And so one of my favorite things to do is the first week we train somebody. We have a course that they have to run. And we let them run the course once. And it takes typically takes like seven minutes. And we're like, we need to do that in three minutes. And they're just like.”
2023-06-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #678: Jake Muise — The Relentless Pursuit of Innovation, Quality, and Meaning · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Don't actually know what's going on. It's the middle of the night, and the minute they don't feel safe, they just run. So you know you're still harvesting them under stress reconditions if they're just standing there. Half the time they'll go back to feeding. Animals are rendered properly. They go down immediately. And as soon as our shooter says clear and the USDA says clear, people are like sprinting into the bushes to find these animals again. It's the middle of the night. If the grass is four feet tall, we have laser pointer systems that come off of the UTVs to like show them the right direction. And animal gets picked up, brought back to the UTV and then we'll collect a couple of them. We have a roving team they're called. So we have a team of rovers that essentially are the mad max team where they'll collect a couple deer and then they'll move as fast as they can back to where the mobile slaughter and processing facilities are stationed. And so they're just cycling back and forth between the harvesting team.”
2023-06-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #678: Jake Muise — The Relentless Pursuit of Innovation, Quality, and Meaning · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So at 150 yards, you can see every hair, any abscess, like the USDA being able to say that animal is healthy is achieved through that technology. And there's no lights on. Like it's completely black. Deer has no idea what's going on as they're being evaluated by the USDA. And then the shooters also have forward-looking infrared scopes. So you never have to introduce light into the scenario to scare them. And that's what allows you to harvest enough animals every night to make it work. So you come up over a hill, you see a couple deer, all of the lights go off, all of this forward-looking infrared equipment comes on instantly. So the USD is able to view it. He's able to look at those five animals and say, yeah, you're able to take those animals. And he has to like verbally, like, we need to wait. He has to verbally say those things. Oftentimes you can shoot several of those animals because”
2023-06-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #678: Jake Muise — The Relentless Pursuit of Innovation, Quality, and Meaning · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“To make this work. The first piece of the technology that will start the night is these forward looking infrared drones. So a drone is going in there to give us a picture of a couple thousand acres to say like deer are going to be in these areas as we get started. The forward-looking infrared binocular system that we use, I can tell you the difference between a goat and a deer at seven miles.”
2023-06-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #678: Jake Muise — The Relentless Pursuit of Innovation, Quality, and Meaning · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And said, I can't do this. I can't do this every night. Like, it's impossible. USDA comes, we have this very defined performance period where we're going really, really fast, under control, and getting as many animals as we can, getting them back and processing them. And then before, you know what, the sun has come up and the night is over”
2023-06-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #678: Jake Muise — The Relentless Pursuit of Innovation, Quality, and Meaning · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“These giant bucks. Anyway, we're moving mobile slaughter facilities and we're getting all set up and stage and you've got these like Mad Max UTVs and everything is getting ready for what we call the performance period. And the USDA shows up and it is essentially game time. You have a finite period of time, which for a long time was only three hours. So you have all of the variability of a wild animal and you have to make it all work in a three hour period. Like your entire business comes down to your mission, business, how you operate comes down to managing variants within a three-hour period. So nobody walks. Everybody drives faster than they'd like to. And we've never had more than like a cut finger knock on wood. And we expect just extraordinary people and athletes to come work with us. We have had lots of people that have come and been with us for a week.”
2023-06-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #678: Jake Muise — The Relentless Pursuit of Innovation, Quality, and Meaning · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah. Well, we have to pick up every single one of these animals and carry them on our backs because you're not allowed to drag them. You can either introduce contaminants and or like bruise the meat. And it's actually one of my favorite parts of the night is it is the complete opposite of the rest of the meat industry after you've killed this animal for food you're carrying this animal on your back into its next stage of life with the food and there's an individual connection with each one of these animals and it's something that every guy on our team like really takes pride in is being able to like pick up these giant 250 pound animals across like razor sharp lava or all like super”
2023-06-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #678: Jake Muise — The Relentless Pursuit of Innovation, Quality, and Meaning · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So we're asking our team members to be snipers, rally car drivers, crossfit athletes, butchers, the people we have on our teams just have these extraordinary skill sets. It's the funnest thing to watch a guy in his first week's time.”
2023-06-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #678: Jake Muise — The Relentless Pursuit of Innovation, Quality, and Meaning · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Got it. You can imagine a bunch of like Hyper local Hawaiians, who I love getting up, rolling out of bed. We all sleep on site. We've got all these cubby holes for them to sleep in. We all sleep on site. We're getting up like 10 p.m. making dinner and breakfast together. Like some of them are diesel engines. Like you really got to shake them to get going. And we are constantly moving. So we have mobile facilities where we're moving from site to site to do this process. We have these primary sites on all of the different ranches that we work with. So the first thing we're looking at each evening is moving our mobile facilities to another site to get closer to the deer. And the reason is one of the other rules we have to follow is after that animal is rendered, it has to be back to the facility, cleaned, processed without a single hair on it in an hour.”
2023-06-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #678: Jake Muise — The Relentless Pursuit of Innovation, Quality, and Meaning · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“On public land, even on private land, that animal, the management of that animal is dictated by the state. It is still owned by People, right So an invasive species on private land in Hawaii is the liability and ownership of the landowner. So it is a very unique situation in which you can actually do this process legally. And it's only in the instance where it is an invasive species on private land. We're not allowed to operate on public land in Hawaii.”
2023-06-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #678: Jake Muise — The Relentless Pursuit of Innovation, Quality, and Meaning · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Prior to harvesting. And I think when we get about like a message a week from a vegan that says like, I'm finally able to come back to eating meat because they understand why the animal has to be managed and why that animal is dying. And then they agree and connect strongly with that process. Like it's truly the only stress-free harvesting or slaughter of an animal within our food system.”
2023-06-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #678: Jake Muise — The Relentless Pursuit of Innovation, Quality, and Meaning · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“In the wild with animals moving around with a combination of, so you can imagine, and this maybe like leads into what like a knight in the field looks like, but you have these mad Max looking UTVs with forward-looking infrared screens essentially attached. The USDA inspector is sitting right beside you the entire time. And the technology is so good that the heat, the friction the bullet makes passing through the air, the USD inspector is actually able to see that bullet hit the head of every single animal. And it's just an extraordinary process where the animal is unaware that you're there. And so it is truly, truly wild until the second harvested and then dies immediately. So there's no, which like comes into play for nutrient density, there is no stress.”
2023-06-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #678: Jake Muise — The Relentless Pursuit of Innovation, Quality, and Meaning · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's what we're talking about. Yeah. And then you need to make sure your aim point is in a place that never can create injuries. Because if you miss high, nothing happens. That animal runs away. And so we actually operate at about a 99.9% rendering efficiency.”
2023-06-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #678: Jake Muise — The Relentless Pursuit of Innovation, Quality, and Meaning · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But not following that process. Yeah. So we never pen bait, we don't interact with these animals at all prior to that rendering or harvesting process. They are entirely wild. And what we developed was a Particular shooting system that allows and or standardize our shooters to miss on purpose 30% of the time. And that sounds weird. But what it is is we are essentially making sure every shot that we hit that animal is perfect and there's never any outside injuries. And to do that, if you shoot a two-inch group at 200 yards, which is difficult to do, and you aim at the very, very top or tip of a head, you are going to miss about 30% of the time.”
2023-06-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #678: Jake Muise — The Relentless Pursuit of Innovation, Quality, and Meaning · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Sure. Part of the systems we had to build were we had to follow the Federal Meat Inspection Act, which the USDA is present to make sure that animal is supposed to be harvested humanely, ultimately after that animal is processed to make sure it's safe to eat. That's their two primary functions. And I know this is hard for people to hear, but if you eat meat, like it's what it is, in a typical brick and mortar facility, that animal is coming in on a trailer, moving through a shoot system, going into a press most often so that animal is completely stationary, and then the language is called rendered, but it's then essentially shot in the head. So we had to follow those exact same rules in the field and with no control of the animal.”
2023-06-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #678: Jake Muise — The Relentless Pursuit of Innovation, Quality, and Meaning · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That we keep combined will be able to tell us on the next day where to go. I was freaking out when they were explaining all of this and lots of dumb questions that went along with it. Yeah. They were shocked at the amount of data we keep and they even got to see like we've run lots of different experiments of how we collect data. And I think maybe what you're pointing to is just this constant iteration of we're going to try this thing, we're going to keep data. And if you don't measure, I think there's that great saying, measure what matters. If you don't measure it, you won't know if it's actually worked. And we are just constantly changing and measuring things. And so we've actually taken that philosophy into our butcher facility, which is a very well-known industry with well-known inputs and production efficiencies. And we're crushing those numbers. And we're just doing it through constant iteration.”
2023-06-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #678: Jake Muise — The Relentless Pursuit of Innovation, Quality, and Meaning · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That dictate where we go, what we do, and then who we put in different places. Actually, I don't think I've told you this, but we just submitted a grant to NASA. Harvard and MIT, these PhDs at Harvard and MIT, found out about what we did, found out we keep an absurd amount of data compared to most agricultural companies. And NASA has a grant available for ag companies where they'll fly this amazing satellite, comes over Hawaii at 1014. We just finished putting this giant grant together, crossing my fingers. And it's so detailed that these amazing people at MIT and Harvard believe they'll be able to detect deer with the satellite and then use the information and data we collect every single night on when we're seeing them and how and how we're interacting with them to incorporate with the machine learning to create route planning for us. So I think a combination of satellite data and the grounding”
2023-06-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #678: Jake Muise — The Relentless Pursuit of Innovation, Quality, and Meaning · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“First and then the other afterwards. So the harvest side of what we do, which is really the unique aspect of what we've built is these field harvesting systems that comply fully with USDA standards, i.e. everything that operates in a brick and mortar we're able to do in the field through a combination of forward-looking infrared and these different software systems that we built. And we were only able to create those systems and levels of efficiency with what you're pointing to was an absurd amount of data that we keep. So we keep track of every mile, every bullet, every time we stop, the moon phases, how the moon flays influences deer. We call it like moon fluence. And we have these giant KPIs and sheets that basically dip.”
2023-06-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #678: Jake Muise — The Relentless Pursuit of Innovation, Quality, and Meaning · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Enjoy the place that they are from and live in. But more importantly, we have an extraordinary group of people. And it just had to roll over the hill a little bit and that combined with other things. Like through COVID when nobody could hire anybody with stacks and stacks and stacks of resumes on my desk, it just has turned into this amazing work environment. And we've had no lack of essentially efficiency or production.”
2023-06-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #678: Jake Muise — The Relentless Pursuit of Innovation, Quality, and Meaning · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“One person is better than two average is 100% true. And we have data to support that in how we look at production and stuff now. And so the other thing that I think is really important for the people we hire, which are hyper local people, we're looking for like people of those places, is you're giving them an opportunity to leverage that place and enjoy it. So half of them will just fish for six days or like go hunting or enjoy surfing or something else. it's just this amazing schedule that really allows them to”
2023-06-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #678: Jake Muise — The Relentless Pursuit of Innovation, Quality, and Meaning · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And it's been amazing to watch them become a better community member or start a food truck or start their own company. And they come back like we essentially have 100% retention of the people we want. And they come back on the start of their seven days and they are the most extraordinary person coming back to us. And then they work amazingly well for seven days, like that age-old adage of like.”
2023-06-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #678: Jake Muise — The Relentless Pursuit of Innovation, Quality, and Meaning · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“A, there's nothing more important than time. B, lots of them, it's been this really interesting and amazing thing to watch them. Seven days is a long time. Like when we hire somebody almost inevitably their first week off, they call me and they're like, what am I supposed to do? Like it's day four. And they're like, I haven't had a seven day vacation in three years. Like, what am I supposed to do? I'm like, well, get used to it. Find some hobbies. Yeah.”
2023-06-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #678: Jake Muise — The Relentless Pursuit of Innovation, Quality, and Meaning · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah. So we said on your seven days off, you can come in and work every single one of those days and a half, like at an overtime rate. And no one did it.”
2023-06-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #678: Jake Muise — The Relentless Pursuit of Innovation, Quality, and Meaning · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Benefit that we didn't see kind of coming. And we did a little experiment last year because we wanted to make sure we're living in Hawaii's extraordinarily expensive and we wanted to be as responsible as possible. So we have two full teams, everybody that works seven days on and another team comes in. We essentially work nonstop. We have two teams switching back and forth. So we offered them unlimited overtime. Can you guess what happened? Nobody took it.”
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