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Published · transcript-backedMichelle Rial: evaluation
12 Mar 2026 Lenny's Podcast How I built a 1M+ subscriber newsletter and top 10 tech podcast | Lenny Rachitsky
“" Usually it's something that makes me laugh or cackle, even though I made it. It's like, "Oh, I've already seen this in my own brain and it's still funny to me," or makes me tear up then I feel like, "Okay, I think people are going to like this.”
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- Michelle Rial
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- evaluation
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- 12 Mar 2026
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- Lenny's Podcast
Transcript context
…Yeah, people want to get credit. ... when they do. Some of them, it's clear when I make it, whether it's like I make it and then I let it sit and then some moment happens. Or I'm like, "Oh no, this is what it needs." And then I'm like, "Now I can feel that's really good. " Usually it's something that makes me laugh or cackle, even though I made it. It's like, "Oh, I've already seen this in my own brain and it's still funny to me," or makes me tear up then I feel like, "Okay, I think people are going to like this. " I am often wrong. Sometimes too there's something from that book that I didn't share at all, but someone took a photo of it. That's how on viral is just a photo of a page of a book that people loved. It wasn't even a digital high quality pictures, just like some written photo, yeah.…
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