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Published · transcript-backedMichelle Rial: preference
12 Mar 2026 Lenny's Podcast How I built a 1M+ subscriber newsletter and top 10 tech podcast | Lenny Rachitsky
“It's like trying really hard to get somewhere. And then the other thing is just a lot of it is writing something down as I'm out in the world, writing and then trying to put it on paper in a way that visualizes it because I'm not strong at drawing.”
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- Speaker
- Michelle Rial
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- preference
- Recorded
- 12 Mar 2026
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
Transcript context
…Single shot latte. Single shot is what I get. Single shot latte, at least an hour. Sometimes it's good to have somewhere I have to be to a time limit, and then I feel like a machine. It's like trying really hard to get somewhere. And then the other thing is just a lot of it is writing something down as I'm out in the world, writing and then trying to put it on paper in a way that visualizes it because I'm not strong at drawing. Yeah, when I was a kid, my dad did a lot of math with me and a lot of fractals and visualization and patterns. And so I think that way mathematically kind of. Yeah, so it helps me to visualize an idea that in the simplest way possible. Let me just say, this is very cool that we're doing this. This is really fun, so sweet.…
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