Lenny Rachitsky: preference

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…And you're focused. Yeah, so it would be fun. I have an awesome team and we jam on stuff, but it's not like... I think I do miss having someone next to me that I'm just working with on the same thing. But I also am trying very hard to never have full-time employees. I'm trying to keep things really simple because it's so easy to build this thing into this whole thing that's complicated that I'm like, "What have I done? " One of the challenges with this life is you can create a job for yourself that you hate by doing things that people want you to do or by following opportunities that feel big and then you're like, "I hate this." I'm trying to be really careful about what I commit to and do. Coming back to your question, I do miss it some. Yeah, it's like a new thing I've realized that I miss is being around other people, like working on the same thing. Yeah, so speaking of other people coming up to you and being around other people, I think it's become harder for you now that people you don't know come up to you because I think you actually have a little bit of face blindness. People who do know you come up to you and you're waiting to know if they just listen to your podcast or if you-…

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