Lenny Rachitsky: belief

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…The thing that I've gotten, that's resonated most in writing in my book of life for the last 30 years. It took me a long, long time. It took me until I started Zynga at 41 to finally identify and articulate my why. And I think for all of us, it's so important to get there. And we might do for a long time before we actually can say the why. But I figured out that mine, what I talk about in the book, is I want to create an internet treasure. When people say, "Mark, how do I know that you're going to work hard on this next thing, or you're post-economic, or you're a bored, rich guy or whatever?" I'm like, "Well, I haven't done my thing yet." Like, "What does our soul need to do before we die, or at least to be in integrity with it? What do I need to be working on and know that I gave everything I had against it?" And it's to build an internet treasure, which is a service we can't remember life before or imagine life without. And I believe as product makers, that that's the greatest ambition and the greatest thing that we can offer the world. And my friend Bing Gordon says, "One day, those treasures will be in the Smithsonian." And I think he's right. And I think it is the greatest opportunity that we have as product makers in this era, is to build those digital skyscrapers that the next generation can't believe anyone ever lived without. That's my ambition, and why I'm still rubbing sticks together and... Yeah, it is. And writing books. Speaking of that, to help people build their own internet treasure, your book is coming out very soon, I think around the time this episode comes out. Tell people where to find it. Anything else you want to share about the book? It's right here. Well, you have a copy. I just got a copy.…

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