Evidence receipt / preference
Published · transcript-backedAsha Sharma: preference
28 Aug 2025 Lenny's Podcast How 80,000 companies build with AI: products as organisms, the death of org charts, and why agents will outnumber employees by 2026 | Asha Sharma (CVP of AI Platform at Microsoft)
“You don't have to trade that off of working extra hours or the importance of family and all of those things. And so I think that my worldview is when I'm 70, it's not about what do I look back on in my life and count the number of regrets, it's really about looking forward in the number of adventures I will still have because I have accumulated this wealth of skills and trust and people and family and impact and things like that.”
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- Asha Sharma
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- 28 Aug 2025
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- Lenny's Podcast
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…Okay, two more questions. Do you have a favorite life motto that you find yourself coming back to? Sharing with friends or family? I used to use the minimize regret framework and it's great, and I've used that for a long time. I think that probably once I got into my adult years and started to have a family and things like that, my just worldview changed a little bit and it was all about maximizing option value and it just gave the things that I naturally cared about like family and health and trust and relationships. It was just a new level of value associated with those because all of a sudden, learning rest on the weekend can compound in the future or having good health can compound in the future. You don't have to trade that off of working extra hours or the importance of family and all of those things. And so I think that my worldview is when I'm 70, it's not about what do I look back on in my life and count the number of regrets, it's really about looking forward in the number of adventures I will still have because I have accumulated this wealth of skills and trust and people and family and impact and things like that. Speaking of skills, the internet tells me that you're a second degree black belt in Taekwondo. Why? Oh gosh. Is this true? And then I have a question about it.…
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