Lenny Rachitsky: belief

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…Yeah, of course, like big, big, one door. Yeah, this is of course, you're going to spend more time on, but people tend to overthink I think decisions. I also found out that personally the quality of my decisions, if you sort of wake me up in the middle of the night and ask me, what do you think about X? And I'm going to be like, I have no idea, I'm sleeping. And then you're like, you got to force me to decision, [inaudible 00:30:54] make a decision, now you're going to give me two weeks to ponder over it... I don't think the quality of the decision is going to be much, much higher, which is maybe could be personal, but that's at least what I found over my too many years of existence, so. I think something that's probably necessary for that to work out well is having a deep experience in that space. You've been at this for a long time, so I imagine your instinct often is trained based on your past experience of the market and customers. Do you feel like that's a necessary component of trusting your gut and instinct on these sorts of decisions? Yeah, of course. You got at some stage know what you're doing. Yeah, if I were now to make a decision around, I don't know, entering a different space, there's no way I would be like, yeah, let's flip a coin, like the Asimov story, and go for it. I go to a conference, learn it, whatever the thing is, and then make that decision. But most of the decisions all of it make on a day-to-day basis is our domain of expertise versus totally new things.…

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