Lenny Rachitsky: uncertainty

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…Yeah, we're seeing change. We're seeing chaos. We're seeing speed. We're seeing excitement, flux, hype, a lack of stability, a potential bubble, but also crazy opportunities. Everything's evolving. Everything's unstable. It comes with costs. It's better. It's worse. It's huge. It's confusing. All smushed together into a more chaotic industry than it's ever been. I don't understand anything about baseball, or maybe it's cricket, but we got this quote. Do you understand baseball? Hopefully if you're watching, you understand these things. But we got this quote, "We're in the second inning of a massive shift. No one knows how it will end, but all you can do is keep taking at bats." Is that a cricket thing? A baseball? I don't know. No, that's baseball. I don't know how many innings. I don't know if there's innings in cricket, but it's definitely baseball. It works for baseball at least. Yeah. Baseball is just saying keep trying, just keep taking shots. Shots on goal [inaudible 01:20:35] metaphors. Yeah. So many good quotes. Another one I see here, which was a good one, "Tech is manic. Half out of touch, clinging to the bandwagon, pouring into the over hype. The other half are exhausted by the first half." That came from a senior PM. Yeah, fascinating stuff. When we look at this overall, it's crazy how we see, again, this bifurcation that 37% of the words used, when we ran sentiment analysis, were positive. 37% were negative, and the remaining 26% or so were neutral, basically an even split. We're all seeing the same thing, but half of us find it thrilling. The other half find it terrifying. I was rather taken aback when I saw these data. It's pretty wild how equally divided we are.…

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