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15 Jan 2026 Lenny's Podcast How to show up in any room with a low heart rate: Silicon Valley’s missing etiquette playbook | Sam Lessin
“I'm just saying it's quite a statement is my view that you've invested in your emoji pack or using special emojis people haven't seen before or it's like, again, it's a subtlety and you got to understand the room and the culture and what you're responding to, but I do think that people read more into that than people want to be read into it.”
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- Sam Lessin
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- 15 Jan 2026
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- Lenny's Podcast
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…Yes. I don't know how I feel about people who have invested too much in their emojis. So you get people who have changed the colors of their emojis from the default or whatever. I'm not saying not to do it. I'm just saying it's quite a statement is my view that you've invested in your emoji pack or using special emojis people haven't seen before or it's like, again, it's a subtlety and you got to understand the room and the culture and what you're responding to, but I do think that people read more into that than people want to be read into it. You know what's crazy now? I don't know if you've seen this, you can create your own emojis now in iOS and emojis are so ... It's like a whole new world, just infinite emojis.…
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