Lenny Rachitsky: uncertainty

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…It is what it is. There's so much depth then. I was like, okay, smarter than I even thought. Okay. Final question. Coming back to cowork, is there, I don't know, mind-blowing use case, something just like, wow, that's so cool that cowork can do that. Either something you use it for, or you've heard somebody using it for? One thing I really like is just introspection. And so I have this folder, basically, of local notes that I have that I use IA writer for. And I basically just write whatever, and over the years have collected it with a bunch of different notes, and they span all different things like one-on-one notes, random thoughts, tiny memos, interview notes, et cetera. And my favorite, it's cool to me, is just using cowork to analyze that and have insights out of it, and actually create things out of it. So anytime I can learn something new about myself, I love that. But I think a very practical thing I did with it the other day was along the lines of hiring, I was like, "Oh yeah, I want to sort of articulate what it is that I look for when I look for in design craft," because I think actually a lot of people struggle to articulate that. And I just had it read through all of my notes, both interview notes and other things that I cared about, and memos and stuff like that I've written in the past. And then it made me this rubric for evaluating that. So that kind of introspection where it's like, oh, I wouldn't have realized even these things about myself that I'd been putting out there implicitly. That's been really cool for me.…

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