Heuristics vs. Algorithms: The Two Rules That Run My Career — David Porter

Rule one: don't be an asshole. Rule two: when in doubt, refer back to rule one.David Porter — Army Ranger turned ServiceNow senior executive — unpacks why "algorithmic" thinking (do A, then B, then C) breaks down the moment you step into the real world, and why the 52 jobs he held before the Army taught him more than business school ever could.In this 10-minute conversation, David shares:• Why school trains you for chess boards and life happens on a different field• Heuristics = street smarts: how the school of hard knocks teaches the golden rule• Leaving a young family at 25 to climb on a bus to Fort Benning• The night he stared at the barbed-wire fence and thought about going AWOL• Becoming the honor graduate of his combat school after "playing the game"• Why he was more worried about jumping out of a plane than the people doing the jumping—Four Fs Podcast: 10-Minute Wins delivers a daily short clip from in-depth conversations with founders, veterans, executives, and world-class experts you won't hear on every other show — on leadership, entrepreneurship, failure, and personal reinvention.Full episodes available on the Four Fs Podcast feed on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube.