Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

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May 17, 2026

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Winston Weinberg discusses how AI is transforming the legal industry and shares insights on decision-making and resilience.

Knowledge Project: Read the notes at at podcastnotes.org . Don't forget to subscribe for free to our newsletter, the top 10 ideas of the week, every Monday --------- Winston Weinberg is the CEO and co-founder of Harvey, the AI platform built for the legal industry. In this episode, Winston explains how AI is reshaping legal work, why judgment becomes more valuable as routine work gets automated, and how to build the prioritization muscle required to move faster, stay focused, and make better decisions when everything is changing. He also shares the operating principles behind Harvey’s growth: make decisions faster, treat most choices as two-way doors, use stress to build resilience, prioritize the one thing that matters most and the Google Doc that drives it all. Harvey began with a simple test: take real legal questions, run them through GPT-3, and ask experienced lawyers whether they would send the answers with zero edits. On 86 out of 100 questions, three out of three attorneys said yes. This is a conversation about AI, law, speed, resilience, and building in a world where the bar keeps getting higher. ------ Timestamps: (00:00:00) “The List” that Powers Winston’s $11B…

People in this episode

Guest: Winston Weinberg

Topics covered

  • AI in law
  • decision-making
  • stress management
  • business growth
  • entrepreneurship

Keywords

  • AI
  • legal industry
  • decision-making
  • stress
  • resilience
  • entrepreneurship
  • Harvey

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Organizations: Harvey, GPT-3

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