Lenny Rachitsky: evaluation

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…These personal workflows are really interesting because some of them really click. People are trying all sorts of stuff. Everybody's making these personal systems. You ask everybody here what they do and everything's going to be different. And then certain themes arise and we're like, "You know what? That should be a first class experience on the app. We should take this thing that everybody seems to be setting up and just make that work." And I think memory is sort of in the shape where we've had a lot of people, and a lot of people at other companies too are like, "Well, I set up an Obsidian base or a Notion area. And I tell it how to basically build my mind palace and how to put..." It's like, "I don't know if everyone..." You shouldn't have to do that. There should be a memory feature that does that for you, that's pretty generic. So that's one. But then there are other things like they're your process of your job. And there's something that like, "Yeah, you should set that up." But I think we're constantly wading through what's working for individual people, what should enter the product? Versus stay, no, that's just how you do your job, right? What should become a primitive, what shouldn't? Yeah. This is the taste and judgment you spoke of earlier deciding these things. I want to talk about this browser use piece a little bit because I think people don't realize how powerful this is and what it could be used for. Reminds me, I don't know if you watched when Dan Shipper was on the podcast, from Every. He had this prediction that we're going to start using Codex to run our SaaS apps inside out. So instead of going in Chrome- I know, he Slacks me about this every day asking for stuff.…

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