Lenny Rachitsky: uncertainty

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…I think, again, it's just the more you can expand your viewpoints by looking at new things, like finding the cross correlations, the links between different areas and different fields, different mediums, the better. I think then reflection on why creating framework for yourself, just building that internal curatorial ability is very important. I think, yeah, how do you look at every expression of human creativity that you can be curious, learn, but then refine your own thinking, your own viewpoints, be willing to revisit the ones you've had in the past. That's what leads to great taste. There is something about judgment in there too. Implied in taste is that some things are good and some things are bad. I think you have to be willing to lean into that yourself in terms of being high judgment. Then, also I think the best designers on the product side can turn on and off. They can go, "I have my own taste, I know what I like." Then, okay, you're going for this. That might be different than what I like, but I can match it, brand as well. Yeah, it's an entirely different conversation maybe about product design and how to build it too, but that's the more general answer maybe. Not to put you on the spot, but is there someone that comes to mind when you think of, this person has great taste, that maybe isn't an obvious, like a Steve Jobs, maybe another leader? I don't know. There won't be an exhaustive list of all people that have amazing taste, but just anyone comes to mind that's a good example? We have a lot of people with great taste at Figma. I'm very lucky. I'll list a few. I think Damien, our creative director, Marcin on our product design team, Amber, our editor. But also, one person we've recently hired that I think has incredible taste is Loredana, she's our new chief design officer. Just came over from Meta and still getting to know her in the Figma context. I think this is her fourth day. We recruited her on the 26th of September, but already I've just seen so many examples where her taste is really, really strong. It's interesting actually, she grew up as a musician and then went into the field of design. Going back to that cross area, cross field discipline, connectivity, I definitely think there's something to that.…

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