Lenny Rachitsky: preference

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…Yeah, it's amazing what you can get away with in terms of shaping the universe to your liking. I think people automatically assume that things have to go a certain way, especially founders and first time founders. It's like, you should at least try it. It's like, "Okay, well I want to do it..." First of, I'll give you another tactical example. Both my co-founder and I are night people, not morning people. Just happens... I didn't pick him because of that. We learned that later. And so we made it just from the early days of HubSpot in the early years at least, we're like, "No meetings before 11 A.M. Period." That was it. And then we adjusted it, I think maybe three or four years and we're like, "All right, we could have meetings before 11:00 AM. You just can't invite one of the co-founders to it. So you're welcome to meet amongst yourselves if you choose to do so." But anyway, yeah, it's little things. That's an amazing rule. I have a personal rule where I have no meetings before 3:00 P. M. because I don't work anywhere. I can more so create my schedule, but the idea is I create this deep work time in the beginnings of the day. I love that. Yeah.…

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