Lenny Rachitsky: observation

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…Noticing. Makes me think about... I think David Sedaris had this story where he just has to say yes to everything he's invited to just because he needs to have experiences because he just has to keep pumping out stories. He's just like, "Sure, let's go to Vegas right now. Let's do it." I feel like that's a lot of the work here is just to live real life. You can't just sit there and come up with ideas. You have to try stuff and do crazy things. Yeah, so my first children's book, which is out soon, that one actually came out of observing parenthood and early new parenthood moments. That's how I started. I started at the beginning of the notebook writing, trying to make charts for new parents. But we'd been reading so many kids' books together that I just had this rhythm in my head of children's books. And so I just turned to the back of the notebook and started writing more children's book rhymes involving chart.…

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