Dharmesh Shah: recommendation

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…So after every talk, you run this transcript and audio through your program to see how you did. Yes, yes. And are you ever going to publish and release this program? Because that sounds really cool. I have this notion of what I call SoloWare. And SoloWare is exactly what it sounds like. It's software built for exactly one person, and in my case, that one person is me. And so I've been doing this thing for 30 years right now. I just build things that I would myself find useful. And the nice thing about Solo, one of the many nice things about it is that the UI is only for one person. You don't have to do a whole lot of testing because it only needs to work for one person. And the most important thing is that because it's only for one person, if it stops bringing utility, you can just turn it off. You can just stop using it. Versus if you have users, even 10 users, and you put it out there and then people would be disappointed if you took it down for whatever reason, that's kind of hard. So anyway, that's the calculus I go through, "Is this useful enough to enough people where it's worth the calories of making it non-solo ware, making it even micro-ware?" I just made that up, but yeah. Wow. Okay. Let's see how the YouTube comments react and how many people would want this and slash pay for it. Let me go in a slightly different direction. We talked about how you have no direct reports, you've never had any direct reports? I know that's somewhat related to a piece of advice you often share, which is to lean into your strengths and to not do things that you're not amazing yet. So can you just talk about why this is the case? Why don't you have any reports? And then I think this idea of just strengths and the importance focusing on strengths.…

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